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 have since written what no tide
Shall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read o’er ocean wide
And find Ianthe’s name agen.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Death stands above me, whispering low
I know not what into my ear;”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)