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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 ”.
Walter Savage Landor was born in Warwick, England, the eldest son of Dr Walter Landor, a physician, and his second wife, Elizabeth Savage.
Landor as the eldest son was heir to these properties and looked forward to a life of prosperity.
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 and son
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 and Charles
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.
Parr introduced Landor to Robert Adair, party organiser for Charles James Fox, who enlisted Landor to write in The Morning Post and The Courier against the ministry of Pitt.
Landor was visited by William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, and was on intimate terms with Charles Armitage Brown.
He also visited his family in Staffordshire-his brother Charles was rector of Colton, and his cousin Walter Landor of Rugeley was trying to deal with the complex business of Llanthony.
Landor met Charles Dickens and they enjoyed each other's company despite the age difference.

Landor and Savage
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.
In his dialogue " Aesop and Rhodopè ", published in 1844, Walter Savage Landor wrote:
* 1775 – Walter Savage Landor, English writer ( d. 1864 )
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.
* Walter Savage Landor
* December 26-Arnold Henry Savage Landor, British writer and artist, grandson of Walter Savage Landor ( born 1865 )
* September 17-Walter Savage Landor, poet ( born 1775 )
* January 30-Walter Savage Landor, poet ( died 1864 )
* Selections from the Works of Walter Savage Landor ( 1856 )
Walter Savage Landor
In 1795 Landor brought out a small volume of English and Latin verse in three books entitled The Poems of Walter Savage Landor.
Walter Savage Landor by William Fisher
Landor in his fury wrote a pamphlet " Walter Savage Landor and the Honourable Mrs Yescombe " which was considered libellous.

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