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Walter Savage Landor

Male : Writer and Poet. Married Julia Thuillier in 1811 (they separated in 1835). He inherited money and lived in many different places and countries in Europe. He was published by 28 different publishers between 1795 & 1863. He died in Italy
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Ipsley Court, Warwick

Date of Birth : 1775 Date of Death : 1864 Age : 89

Education : Rugby & Trinity College, Oxford (rusticated)
1795-1800
Poems
(1795)
Moral Epistle respectfully Dedicated to Earl Stanhope
(1795)
To the Burgess of Warwick
(1797)
Gebir : A Poem in Seven Books
(1798)
(1803 Slatter & Munday, Oxford. 2nd Ed)
Poems from the Arabic and Persian
(1800 Rivingtons)
Poetry
(1800)

1801-1810
Iambi Incerto Auctore
(c1802)
Simonidea
(1806)
The Dun Cow
(1808)
Three Letters Written in Spain to D. Francisco Riguelme
(1809)
Ode ad Gustavum Regem : Ode ad Gustavum Exulem
(1810)

1811-1820
Count Julian : A Tragedy
(1812 Murray)
Commentary on Memoirs of Mr Fox
(1812)
Letters Addressed to Lord Liverpool and the Parliament on the Preliminaries of Peace
(1814)
Letter from Mr Landor to Mr Jervis
(1814)
Idyllia Nove Quinque Heroum atque Heriodum
(1815)
Sponsalia Polyxenae
(1819)
Idyllia Heroica Decem Librum Phaleuciroum Unum
(1820)

1821-1830
Imaginery Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
(1824-9 Taylor & Hessey) - 5 vols

1831-1840
Gebir, Count Julian & other Poems
(1831)
Imaginery Conversation : Solon and Pisistratus
(1832)
The Examination of W. Shakespeare touching Deer-stealing
(1834)
Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare ... touching Deer-Stealing
(1834 Saunders & Otley) - Anon
Terry Hogan : An Eclogue
(1836)
The Letters of a Conservative
(1836)
A Satire on Satirists and Admonition to Detractors
(1836)
Pericles and Aspasia
(1836 Saunders & Otley) (1839 Carey & Hart, Phila) - 2 vols
The Pentameron and Pentalogia
(1837 Saunders & Otley) - Anon
Andrea of Hungary and Giovanni of Naples
(1839 Bentley)
Fra Rupert
(1840)

1841-1850
To Robert Browning
(1845)
The Works
(1846) - 2 vols
The Hellenics : Enlarged & Completed
(1847 Moxon) (1859 James Nicol)
Poemata et Inscriptiones
(1847 Moxon)
The Italics
(1848)
Savagius Landor Lamartino
(1848)
Imaginery Conversation of King Carlo-Alberto and the Duchess of Belgioioso on the
Affairs and Prospects of Italy
(1848)
Epistola as pium IX Pontificem
(1849)
Ad Cossuthum et Bemum
(1849)
Statement and Occurrences at Llandedr
(1849)

1851-1855
Popery : British & Foreign
(1851 Chapman & Hall)
On Kossuth's Voyage to America
(1851)
Tyranicide, Published for the Benefit of the Hungarians in America
(1851)
Carmen ad Heroinam
(1852)
Imaginery Conversations of Greeks and Romans
(1853 Moxon)
The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree
(1853 Moxon)
Letters of an American, Mainly on Russia and Revolution
(1854)

1856-1860
Anthony and Octavius : Scenes for the Study
(1856)
Letter from W S Landor to R W Emerson
(1856)
Selections from the Prose Writings
(1856) - Edited by G S Hilliard
Walter Savage Landor and the Hon Mrs Yescombe
(1857)
Mr Landor Threatened
(1857)
Dry Sticks : Fagoted by Landor
(1858 James Nichol, Edinburgh / Nisbet, London) - 250
Mr Landor's Remarks
(1859)
Savonarola e il Priore di San Marco
(1860)

1861-1900
Heroic Idyls, with Additional Poems
(1863 T Cautley Newby, London)
The Works
(1868 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
The Works & Life
(1874-6 Chapman & Hall) - 8 vols
Selections from the Writings
(1885 Macmillan) - arranged by Sidney Colvin
Imaginery Conversations, with Bibliographical & Explanatory Notes
(1891 Dent) - 6 vols
Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Docuemnts : The Blessington Papers
(1895) - Edited by A Morrison
Epicurus, Leontion and Ternissa
(1896 Vale Press) - 210
Letters and Other Unpublished Writings
(1897 Bentley) - Edited by Stephen Wheeler
Letters Private and Public : Edited by Stephen Wheeler
(1899 Duckworth)

20thC
A Modern Greek Idyl
(1917)
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Other Verses
(1917)
Garibaldi and the President of the Sicilian Senate
(1917)
An Address to the Fellows of Trinity College Oxford on the Alarm of Invasion
(1917)
The Complete Works
(1927-36 Chapman & Hall) - 600. 16 vols. Edited by T Earle Welby
The Complete Works
(1927-36 Barnes & Noble, Methuen) - 16 vols. Edited by T Earle Welby. 525
A Poet's Dream
(1928 ptd for T J Wise, Edinburgh for PP distribution) - allegedly 35 copies
Landor : Last Days, Letters and Conversations
(1934) - Edited by H C Minchin
Imaginery Conversations
(1936 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by printer Hans Mardersteig
The Sculptured Garland : A Selection from the Lyrical Poems
(1948 Dropmore Press) - 300. wood engravings by Iain MacNab
Poems : A Selection
(1964) - Edited by Geoffrey Grigson
Complete Works
(1969 Barnes & Noble, NY / Methuen) - 16 vols. Facsimile of 1936 edition

READING
John Forster : Life of Walter Savage Landor - A Biography
(1869 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
Thomas J Wise : A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose & Verse of Walter Savage Landor
(1919 Oxford Bibl Soc)
Malcolm Elwin : Savage Landor
(1941 Macmillan)
R H Super : The Publication of Landor's Works
(1954 Bibliographical Society, London)
R H Super : Landor - A Biography
(1954)
G R Hamilton : Walter Savage Landor
(1960)
E Dilworth : Walter Savage Landor
(1971)
(Ed) Herbert Van Thal : A Biographical Anthology (1973)

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See also

Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson