Walter Savage Landor (30 January 1775 – 17 September 1864) was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was, it was equalled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament.
Read more about Walter Savage Landor: Summary of His Work, Summary of His Life, Early Life, South Wales and Gebir, Napoleonic Wars and Count Julian, Llanthony and Marriage, Florence and Imaginary Conversations, England, Pericles and Journalism, Final Tragedies and Return To Italy, Review of Landor's Work By Swinburne, In Popular Culture
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“I strove with none, for none was worth my strife:
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art:”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“Twenty years hence my eyes may grow
If not quite dim, yet rather so,
Still yours from others they shall know”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“Verse calls them forth; ‘tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)