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Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
Landor, Walter Savage. A distinguished English poet and prose-writer; born at Ipsley Court, Warwickshire, Jan. 30, 1775; died at Florence, Sept. 17, 1864. He inherited a very large fortune; entered the military service of Spain 1808, with a body of troops maintained at his own expense; in 1815 he fixed his residence at Florence. His most celebrated work is ‘Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen’ (1st series, 3 vols., 1824–28; 2d series, 3 vols., 1829). Among his other works are: ‘Poems’ (1795); ‘Gebir’ (1798); ‘Count Julian; a Tragedy’ (1812); ‘Heroic Idylls’ (1814 and 1820), two volumes of Latin verse; ‘Satire upon Satirists and Admonition to Detractors’ (1836), an attack upon Wordsworth; ‘The Pentameron,’ conversations of Petrarch and Boccaccio (1837); ‘Andrea of Hungary and Giovanni of Naples’ (1839); ‘Fra Rupert’ (1840); ‘The Hellenics’ (1847); ‘Italics,’ verses (1848); ‘Antony and Octavius: Scenes for the Study’ (1856); ‘Dry Sticks Fagoted by W. S. Landor’ (1858); ‘Savonarola and the Prior of St. Mark’ (1860); ‘Heroic Idylls, with Additional Poems’ (1863). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).