Walter Savage Landor was born in Warwick, England, the eldest son of Dr Walter Landor, a physician, and his second wife, Elizabeth Savage.

It was said that he greatly resembled his eldest brother, Walter Savage Landor, in his genius and classical knowledge, but in nothing else.

He was the godfather of Dickens's son Walter Landor Dickens.

Landor received a visit from his son Arnold in 1842 and in that year wrote a long essay on Catullus for Forster who was editor of " Foreign Quarterly Review " and followed it up with The Idylls of Theocritus.

A statue of his wife can also be found in the ' English ' Cemetery, above the tomb of their son, Arnold Savage Landor.

Landor was the third son of Dr Walter Landor a physician and his wife Elizabeth Savage, and thereby the brother of Walter Savage Landor.

* Mum ( Rosalyn Landor ) – Bushwhacker Bob's mother, who is much calmer and wiser than her son.

Landor was the son of Charles Savage Landor and his wife Esmerelda Armida Piselli, and spent his childhood in Florence where he was educated at the Liceo Dante and the Instituto Technico.

The logo of the company was designed by Landor Associates, and represents the Big Dipper.

Southey's mind was giving way when he wrote a last letter to his friend Landor in 1839, but he continued to mention Landor's name when generally incapable of mentioning any one.

Another contemporary poet who does not fit into the Romantic group was Walter Savage Landor.

Landor was a classicist whose poetry forms a link between the Augustans and Robert Browning, who much admired it.

Walter Savage Landor ( 30 January 1775 – 17 September 1864 ) was an English writer and poet.

And yet Landor was described as “ the kindest and gentlest of men ”.

Years later, Landor included references to James in Latin in Simonidea with a mixture of praise and criticism and was subsequently reconciled with him.

Landor was reconciled with his family through the efforts of his friend Dorothea Lyttelton.

It was at Swansea that he became friendly with the family of Lord Aylmer, including his sister, Rose, whom Landor later immortalized in the poem, " Rose Aylmer ".

Gifford, on the other hand, who was ever a harsh critic of Landor described it as A jumble of incomprehensible trash ... the most vile and despicable effusion of a mad and muddy brain ....

In 1802 Landor went to Paris where he saw Napoleon at close quarters, and this was enough to put him off the idea of French republicanism.

About the same time Landor published the whole poem in Latin, which did little to increase readership but appealed to Parr was considered by Swinburne to be comparable with the English version in might and melody of line, and for power and perfection of language.

He also wrote a work " The Dun Cow " which was written in defence of his friend Parr who had been attacked in an anonymous work " Guy's Porridge Pot ", which Landor was fierce to deny was any work of his.

The previous owner had erected some buildings in the ruins of the ancient abbey, but an Act of Parliament, passed in 1809, was needed to allow Landor to pull down these buildings and construct a house, ( which was never finished ).

However the idyll was not to last long as for the next three years Landor was worried by the combined vexation of neighbours and tenants, lawyers and lords-lieutenant and even the Bishop of St David's, while at the same time he tried to publish an article on Fox, a response to a sycophantic piece by John Bernard Trotter, which was condemned by the prospective publisher John Murray as libellous and damned by Canning and Gifford.

Even here he had troubles for at the time Caroline of Brunswick, wife of the Prince Regent was living there and Landor was suspected of being an agent involved in watching her in case of divorce proceedings.

Landor wrote over three hundred Latin poems, political tracts and essays, but these have generally been ignored in the collections of his work.

Although Landor subsequently disowned these "' prentice works ", Swinburne wrote " No poet at the age of twenty ever had more vigour of style and fluency of verse ; nor perhaps has any ever shown such masterly command of epigram and satire, made vivid and vital by the purest enthusiasm and most generous indignation.

With these works, Landor acquired a high, but not wide literary reputation.

Again, although these plays, or " conversations in verse " did not succeed with the public, Landor gained warm admirers, many of whom were his personal friends.

The Scottish writer Walter Scott, and the English writers Walter Savage Landor and Robert Southey, handled the legends associated with these events poetically: Scott in " The Vision of Don Roderick " in 1811 ; Landor in his tragedy Count Julian in 1812 ; and Southey in " Roderick the Last of the Goths ", in 1814.

In the first years of the twentieth century Landor was interested in making flying machines with bamboo and taffeta, but abandoned these inventions to take up traveling again.

In a long and active life of eighty-nine years Landor produced a considerable amount of work in various genres.

Landor ’ s life is an amazing catalogue of incidents and misfortunes, many of them self-inflicted but some no fault of his own.

For the next three years Landor led an unsettled life, spent mainly in London.

Landor had a visit from Southey, after he sent him a letter describing the idylls of country life, including nightingales and glow-worms.

In July that year Landor returned to Italy for the last six years of his life.

Lord Byron tended to ridicule and revile him, and though Landor had little good to say in return during Byron's life he lamented and extolled him as a dead hero.

* Ianthe was also the nickname given by the poet Walter Savage Landor to Sophia Jane Swift, the love of his life whom he was never able to marry.

Anthropologist Arnold Henry Savage Landor described the Ainu as having deep-set eyes and an eye shape typical of Europeans, with a large and prominent browridge, large ears, hairy and prone to baldness, slightly flattened hook nose with large and broad nostrils, prominent cheek bones, large mouth and thick lips and a long region from nose to mouth and small chin region.

* 1775 – Walter Savage Landor, English writer ( d. 1864 )

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The pebble is designed by Landor.

Karl Marx, in an interview by R. Landor from 1871, said that Mazzini's ideas represented " nothing better than the old idea of a middle-class republic.

In 1808 he became acquainted with Walter Savage Landor, whose early work he had admired, and the two developed mutual admiration of each other's work and became close friends.

In his poem " Past Ruin'd Ilion ", English writer and poet Walter Savage Landor ( 1775-1864 ) wrote the line " Alcestis rises from the shades " as having a double meaning, evoking her rise from Hades while demonstrating the ability of enduring poetry to give her vitality, drawing her into the light from the shadows of historical oblivion.

The northern part of Clapham North lying within the Larkhall Ward includes the architecturally significant Sibella conservation area which is generally considered more affluent, whilst the southern part lies within Ferndale ward and includes Landor, Ferndale and Bedford roads.

Landor ’ s Imaginary Conversations ( 1821 – 1828 ) formed the most famous English example of dialogue in the 19th century, although the dialogues of Sir Arthur Helps also claim attention and make himself more popular.

It obtained immediate recognition, making Forster a prominent figure in a distinguished circle of literary men which included Leigh Hunt, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Albany Fonblanque, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens.

In 1868 appeared his Life of Landor.

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Landor ’ s prose is best represented by the Imaginary Conversations.

These exercises proved a more successful application of Landor ’ s natural ability for writing dialogue than his plays.

Landor wrote much sensitive and beautiful poetry.

In the course of his career Landor wrote for various journals on a range of topics that interested him from anti-Pitt politics to the unification of Italy.

Landor found Latin useful for expressing things that might otherwise have been “ indecent or unattractive ” as he put it and as a cover for libellous material.