Walter Landor

Landor, Walter Savage - 1775–1864, English poet and essayist, educated at Oxford. After a quarrel with his father, he went to live in Wales, where he wrote the epic poem Gebir (1798). The middle and most productive years of his life were spent in Italy. There he wrote the greater portion of his voluminous prose work Imaginary Conversations (1824–53), consisting of nearly 150 Read More...

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1.

Walter Savage Landor
by G. Rostrevor Hamilton. 40 pgs.

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I: The Man

II: The Prose

III: The Verse

Landor: A Select Bibliography
2.

The Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor, Vol. 1 ("Gebir" begins on p. 1)
by Walter Landor, Stephen Wheeler. 530 pgs.

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Preface

ERRATA

Contents of Volume I

HEROIC POEMS

I. Gebir

II. Crysaor

III. The Phocæans

Corythos

The Last of Ulysses

DRAMAS AND DRAMATIC SCENES

DRAMAS AND DRAMATIC SCENES

ACT I. SCENE 2.

ACT I. SCENE 3.

ACT I. SCENE 4.

ACT I. SCENE 5.

ACT I. SCENE 5.

ACT II. SCENE 5.

ACT III. SCENE 1.

ACT III. SCENE 1.

ACT III. SCENE 1.

ACT III. SCENE 1.

ACT III. SCENE 1.

ACT III. SCENE 1.

ACT III. SCENE 1.

ACT V. SCENE 2.

ACT V. SCENE 3.

ACT V. SCENE 3.

ACT V. SCENE 3.

Ines De Castro [part I]

Essex and Bacon

Walter Tyrrel and William Rufus

The Parents of Luther

The Parents of Luther

THE PARENTS OF LUTHER

THE PARENTS OF LUTHER

THE PARENTS OF LUTHER

THE PARENTS OF LUTHER

THE PARENTS OF LUTHER

THE PARENTS OF LUTHER

THE PARENTS OF LUTHER

THE PARENTS OF LUTHER

[ACT II.] SCENE IV.

[ACT II.] SCENE V. PALACE GARDEN.

[ACT II.] SCENE VI

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

[ACT IV.] SCENE H. FRA RUPERT'S CELL.

[ACT IV.] SCENE III. THE GARDEN OF FRIAR ANSELM'S CONVENT. FRA RUPERT, KLAPWRATH, ZINGA, and PSEIN.

[ACT IV.] SCENE IV. PALACE OF AVERSA; SALOON OVERLOOKING THE GARDEN. SANCIA, FILIPPA, MARIA, FIAMMETTA.

[ACT IV.] SCENE IV. PALACE OF AVERSA; SALOON OVERLOOKING THE GARDEN. SANCIA, FILIPPA, MARIA, FIAMMETTA.

[ACT IV.] SCENE IV. PALACE OF AVERSA; SALOON OVERLOOKING THE GARDEN. SANCIA, FILIPPA, MARIA, FIAMMETTA.

[ACT IV.] SCENE IV. PALACE OF AVERSA; SALOON OVERLOOKING THE GARDEN. SANCIA, FILIPPA, MARIA, FIAMMETTA.

[ACT IV.] SCENE IV. PALACE OF AVERSA; SALOON OVERLOOKING THE GARDEN. SANCIA, FILIPPA, MARIA, FIAMMETTA.

[ACT IV.] SCENE IV. PALACE OF AVERSA; SALOON OVERLOOKING THE GARDEN. SANCIA, FILIPPA, MARIA, FIAMMETTA.

Giovanna of Naples

GIOVANNA OF NAPLES

[ACT. I.] SCENE II. CASTEL-NUOVO.

[ACT. I.] SCENE II. CASTEL-NUOVO.

[ACT. I.] SCENE II. CASTEL-NUOVO.

[ACT. I.] SCENE II. CASTEL-NUOVO.

[ACT. I.] SCENE II. CASTEL-NUOVO.

[ACT. I.] SCENE II. CASTEL-NUOVO.

[ACT. I.] SCENE II. CASTEL-NUOVO.

[ACT. I.] SCENE II. CASTEL-NUOVO.

[ACT. I.] SCENE II. CASTEL-NUOVO.

[ACT II.] SCENE IV.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[act Ii.] Scene V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

[ACT II.] SCENE V.

ACT II.] SCENE VII. CASTLE OF MURO.

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

ACT III.

[ACT IV.] SCENE IV. PALACE IN NAPLES.

ACT V.

[ACT V.) SCENE H. PALACE. NAPLES.

[ACT V.) SCENE H. PALACE. NAPLES.

[ACT V.) SCENE H. PALACE. NAPLES.

[ACT V.] SCENE V. NAPLES.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[act V.] Scene Vi. Naples. Before the Palace. Among Guards.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE VI. NAPLES. BEFORE THE PALACE. AMONG GUARDS.

[ACT V.] SCENE IV.

[ACT V.] SCENE V. ARCH OF TRAJAN ON THE MOLE.

NOTES
3.

Landor, a Replevin
by Malcolm Elwin. 494 pgs.

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Illustrations

1: Towards the Quarry

2: The Rebel Bred

3: The Pulse of Youth

4: The Loves and the Graces

5: Marriage

6: Boythorn at Llanthony

7: First Years of Exile

8: Florence: First Imaginary Conversations

9: Florence and Rome

10: Move to Fiesole

11: England After Eighteen Years

12: Domestic Breach

13: Celebrity and Solitude

14: Settlement at Bath

15: Family and Friends 1839-43

16: The Boythorn Dickens Knew

17: Old Age at Bath

18: Scandal

19: Twilight in Italy

Appendix I: Chronology of Events In Landor's Life

Appendix II: Bibliography of Authorities

Appendix III: List of Landor's Publications

Index
4.

Makers of Literature: Being Essays on Shelley, Landor, Browning, Byron, Arnold, Coleridge, Lowell, Whittier, and Others
by George Edward Woodberry. 444 pgs.

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Contents

Matthew Arnold.

Coleridge.

Shelley's Poetry: a Sketch.

Landor.

Crabbe.

Charles Lamb; or Elia.

The Poetry of Aubrey De Vere.

Aubrey De Vere on Poetry.

Illustrations of Idealism.

Remarks on Shelley.

Some Actors' Criticisms of Othello, Lago, and Shylock.

Sir George Beaumont, Coleridge, and Wordsworth.

Three Men of Piety

John Greenleaf Whittier.

James Russell Lowell.

Darwin's Life.

Byron's Centenary.

On Browning's Death.

Shelley's Work.
5.

The English Romantic Poets and Essayists: A Review of Research and Criticism (Chap. 8 "Walter S. Landor")
by Carolyn Washburn Houtchens, Lawrence Huston Houtchens. 366 pgs.

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Abbreviations in References

1: William Blake

2: Charles Lamb

3: Hazlitt

4: Scott

5: Southey

6: Thomas Campbell

7: Thomas Moore

8: Walter S. Landor

9: Leigh Hunt

10: Thomas De Quincey

Index
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Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature (Chap. 23 "Attending to Landor")
by Donald Davie. 328 pgs.

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1: Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness

2: A Reading of 'the Ocean's Love to Cynthia'

3: Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today

4: A West-Country Poet: Sidney Godolphin

5: Syntax and Music in Paradise Lost

6: Edward Taylor and Isaac Watts

7: Dramatic Poetry: Dryden's Conversation-Piece

8: The Language of Science and the Language of Literature, 1700-1740

Appendix

9: Berkeley and the Style of Dialogue

10: Yeats, Berkeley and Romanticism

11: Language and Poetry in the English Enlightenment

12: Two Reviews

13: Christopher Smart: Some Neglected Poems

14: Goldsmith as Monarchist

15: John Ledyard: the American Traveller and His Sentimental Journeys

16: The Critical Principles of William Cowper

17: Personification

18: Politics and Literature: John Adams and Doctor Johnson

19: Dionysus in Lyrical Ballads

20: The Poetry of Sir Walter Scott

21: William Cullen Bryant's 'to a Waterfowl'

22: John Keats: a Genius and His Limitations

23: Attending to Landor

24: Browning and Modernism

Index of Names
7.

Literary Criticisms ("Landor and Rose-Water" begins on p. 34)
by Terence L. Connolly, Francis L. Thompson. 617 pgs.

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Foreword

Contents

Acknowledgments

Biography

The Seventeenth Century

The Romantic Movement

The Victorian Age

Miscellany of English Poets and Poetry

The Technique and History of English Poetry

Americana

The Irish Literary Revival

French Literature and Frenchmen

Mysticism: Genuine and Spurious

Varia

Reviews Printed from Manuscripts in the Boston College Thompson Collection

Bibliography

Index
8.

A Literary History of England ("Robert Southey, Walter Savage Landor, and Other Poets" begins on p. 1159)
by Albert C. Baugh. 1678 pgs.

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Preface

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Part I: The Old English Period (To 1100)

I: Folk, State, and Speech

II: Anglo-Latin Writings

III: The Old Tradition: Poetic Form

IV: The Old Tradition: Popular Poetry

V: The Old Tradition: Courtly Poetry

VI: Religious Poetry: CæDmon and His School

VII: Religious Poetry: Cynewulf and His School

VIII: Religious Poetry: Poems on Various Themes

IX: Secular Poetry

X: Literary Prose

Part II: The Middle English Period (1100-1500)

I: General Characteristics of the Period

II: The Survival of the Native Tradition (1100-1250)

III: The Ancrene Riwle

IV: Anglo-Norman Literature

Early Latin Writers

VI: Wit and Wisdom

VII: For Their Soul's Need

VIII: The Arthurian Legend to Layamon

IX: The Romance: I

X: The Romance: II

XI: The Omnibus of Religion

XII: The Lyric

XIII: Richard Rolle and Other Mystics

XIV: The Alliterative Revival

XV: Piers Plowman and Other Alliterative Poems

XVI: Chaucer: I

XVII: Chaucer: II

XVIII: Other Contemporaries of Chaucer

XIX: The Beginnings of the Drama

XX: Ebb Tide

XXI: Looking Forward

Part I: The Early Tudors (1485-1558)

I: Links with the Past

II: The New Learning

III: The New World

IV: Satire

V: The Interlude

VI: Religious Prose

Part II: The Reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603)

I: The Elizabethan Lyric

II: Verse Narrative

III: Prose Narrative: Lylyand His Predecessors

IV: Prose Narrative: II. Greene and His Followers

V: Miscellaneous Prose

VI: Elizabethan Comedy

VII: Elizabethan Tragedy

VIII: Sidney and the Sonneteers

IX: Edmund Spenser

X: The Faerie Queene: the Spenserians

XI: Christopher Marlowe

XII: Shakespeare to 1603

Part III: The Early Stuarts and the Commonwealth (1603-1660)

I: Shakespeare under James

II: Jacobean Drama: I. Dramatists of the Old School

III: Jacobean Drama: II. the Satiric Group

IV: Jacobean Drama: III. the Romantic Playwrights

V: Caroline Drama, 1625-1642

VI: Seventeenth-Century Prose: I. Bacon and the Prose of Utility

VII: Seventeenth-Century Prose: II. Character Books. Autobiography. Walton.

VIII: Seventeenth-Century Prose: III. the Baroque Glory

IX: Seventeenth-Century Poetry: I. the Olympians

X: Seventeenth-Century Poetry II. the Moral Tradition

XI: Seventeenth-Century Poetry: III. the Academic and Courtly Tradition

XII: Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Iv. Links with the Restoration

XIII: Milton, "The Last Elizabethan"

XIV: Milton's Latin Poems and Prose Works

XV: Milton in the Restoration

Part I: The Rise of Classicism

I: The Spirit of the Restoration

II: Literary Criticism of the Restoration

III: The Poetry of Dryden

IV: Minor Poets of the Restoration

V: Restoration Drama: I. Heroic Plays and Tragedies

VI: Restoration Drama: II. Comedy

VII: Patterns in Historical Writing

VIII: Types of Prose Fiction

IX: The Essay and Allied Forms

Part II: Classicism and Journalism

I: Eighteenth-Century Quality

II: The Critical Temper and Doctrine; 1700-1750

III: Defoe and Journalism

IV: Jonathan Swift

V: Addison, Steele, and the Periodical Essay

VI: The Drama, 1700-1740

VII: Traditions in Early Eighteenth-Century Poetry

VIII: Pope and His Group

IX: New Voices in Poetry

X: The Mid-Century Novel

Book III: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1660-1789)

I: Accentuated Tendencies

II: Opinions of Critics

Book IV: The Nineteenth Century and after (1789-1939)

Index
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English Bards and Grecian Marbles: The Relationship between Sculpture and Poetry Especially in the Romantic Period (Chap. X "Landor and Hunt")
by Stephen A. Larrabee. 314 pgs.

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I. Poets and Sculpture

Ii. the Early Poets

Iii. the Seventeenth Century Pre-Restoration: the Uses Of Statue-Craft

Iv. the Eighteenth Century

V. Blake

Vi. Wordsworth And Coleridge

Vii. Byron Byron and Art

Viii. Shelley Greece: "The Crystalline Sea Of Thought"

Ix. Keats Keats, the "Greek"

X. Landor and Hunt

Xi. the Lesser Poets