Walter Savage Landor

Standard Name: Landor, Walter Savage

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Travel Mary Russell Mitford
MRM made a trip to Bath, during which she met Frances Trollope and Walter Savage Landor .
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 268
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 195
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron , Shelley , Landor , Disraeli , the Duke of Wellington , Lord John Russell , Palmerston , and Sir Robert Peel .
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Lynn Linton
ELL says, indeed, comparatively little of her own life, but she is an observant, vivid, astute recorder of literary personalities and anecdotes. Her major literary portraits are those of Walter Savage Landor and George Eliot .
Textual Production Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Lady Blessington said of her novels to her friend Walter Savage Landor : they are written on the every-day business of life, without once entering the region of imagination. I wrote because I wanted money...
Textual Production Rosamond Lehmann
RL published her second novel, A Note in Music, which complemented her portrayal in Dusty Answer of youth as a time of enchantment.
The title is quoted from Walter Savage Landor .
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus.
125
LeStourgeon, Diana. Rosamond Lehmann. Twayne.
55, 57, 147
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
15: 271
Textual Production Eliza Lynn Linton
ELL was a prejudiced reviewer of John Forster 's life of Walter Savage Landor , which made no mention of her, though she had been important in Landor's life. She said complacently of her review,...
Textual Production Mary Boyle
Sometime after 1864 MB worked together with Tennyson , Landor , and Wordsworth in a miscellany encouraged by Lord Northampton (brother of her friend Lady Marian Alford, and son of the remarkable poet Margaret, Lady Northampton
Literary responses Margaret Holford
In 1825 Baillie reported Wallace being quoted as epigraph by Thomas Charlton Smith in his recent Bayleaves.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
2: 578
Later again, in 1837, the former Holford (now Hodson) heard from Reginald Heber that his...
Literary responses Mary Lamb
In reading The Father's Wedding-day, Walter Savage Landor said he pressed my temples with both hands, and tears ran down to my elbows.. He read this story over and over again,
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking.
244
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Literary responses Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Landor praised The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman, telling Blessington: Your scenes and characters are real, your reflections profound and admirably expressed.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey.
356
The Edinburgh Review agreed as to the realism of the characters...
Literary responses Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Landor , however, considered this the best of her books.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey.
358
Literary responses Eliza Lynn Linton
Walter Savage Landor admired this novel.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
18
George Henry Lewes reviewed it at considerable length for the Athenæum. He considered writing convincing fiction about the Greeks an impossible task, because their ethos was so...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB 's ballads have proved of particular interest to feminist critics. Dorothy Mermin argues that in this apparently most innocent, retrogressive, and sentimental of female genres, she was exploring what was to become her central...
Literary responses Robert Browning
In response to this volume, Walter Savage Landor composed and published in the Morning Chronicle on 22 November 1845 the praiseful To Robert Browning.
Thomas, Donald. Robert Browning: A Life Within Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
98
Leisure and Society Eliza Lynn Linton
Walter Savage Landor unselfishly chaperoned Eliza Lynn, like an actual father, to a whole season of balls and entertainments at Bath (for which she had only a single black dress, whose trimmings she constantly varied:...

Timeline

30 January 1775: Walter Savage Landor, poet and essayist,...

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30 January 1775

Walter Savage Landor , poet and essayist, was born probably at Ipsley Court, Warwick.

1795: Walter Savage Landor's first publication,...

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1795

Walter Savage Landor 's first publication, Poems, appeared; he later suppressed this publication.

After February 1806: Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea,...

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After February 1806

Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea, which included the well-known poemRose Aylmer.

March 1824-May 1829: Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary...

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March 1824-May 1829

Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen.

March 1836: Walter Savage Landor published Pericles and...

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March 1836

Walter Savage Landor published Pericles and Aspasia, a collection of imaginary letters between the Athenian statesman and the learned and cultivated courtesan.

17 September 1864: Walter Savage Landor, poet and essayist,...

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17 September 1864

Walter Savage Landor , poet and essayist, died in Florence, Italy, and was buried in the English Cemetery there.

Texts

Landor, Walter Savage et al. “Some Letters of Walter Savage Landor”. Century: A Popular Quarterly, pp. 511-21.