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Biography of Walter Savage Landor
Name: Walter Savage Landor
Birth Date: January 30, 1775
Death Date: September 17, 1864
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, essayist, critic
Walter Savage Landor
The English poet, essayist, and critic Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) is best known for his "Imaginary Conversations," a series of dialogues between historical personages.Walter Savage Landor was born on Jan. 30, 1775, the eldest son of Walter Landor, a doctor, and Elizabeth Savage Landor, an heiress whose fortune of £80,000 was entailed on her eldest son, though she had three more. Dr. Landor owned Hughenden Manor, later bought by Benjamin Disraeli. Walter Savage was sent away to school at 4 and at 9 went to Rugby School. He loved all nature: he did not pick flowers, pulled boys' ears for stoning rooks, never took a bird's nest, and never hunted. By 1789 he was writing bawdy verses and vociferously approving the French Revolution.In 1793 Landor went to Trinity College, Oxford, where he was thought a "mad Jacobin" because he wore unpowdered hair. He was sent down in 1794 for shooting a fellow student and spent a summer …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Landor was seldom free of amorous entanglements and had a quick temper: at his Florentine villa, after throwing his cook out of a window he exclaimed, "Damn--I forgot the violets." Further Reading The complete edition of Landor's poetry, edited by Stephen Wheeler, has long been out of print. E. K. Chambers, Landor: Poetry and Prose (1946), is a small, very limited selection. A more recent edition, Poems, edited with an introduction by Geoffrey Grigson (1965), is an extensive volume of selections of Landor's poetry which includes the whole of "Gebir." Biographies of Landor are Robert Henry Super, Walter Savage Landor: A Biography (1954); Malcolm Elwin, Landor: A Replevin (1958); and George Rostrevor Hamilton, Walter Savage Landor (1960). For historical background and for Landor's place in English poetry see Douglas Bush, English Poetry: The Main Currents from Chaucer to the Present (1952).Super, R. H. (Robert Henry), Walter Savage Landor: a biography, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977, 1954.
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