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Landor
Published in 1881 in the first series of English Men of Letters, this biography by Sir Sidney Colvin of the poet Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) opens with the claim 'few men have ever impressed their peers so much, or the general public so little'. Landor's turbulent life included suspension from both Rugby and Oxford, numerous love affairs, an illegitimate child, and frequent legal trouble over his writing, including a libel case which caused him to leave England permanently. He is best known for his six-volume Imaginary Conversations, a series of dialogues between characters ranging from antiquity to Landor's literary contemporaries. This book not only describes Landor's life but also discusses his poetry and prose. Colvin (1845–1927), who was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and later keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum, also wrote the volume on Keats in this series.
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Landor
Published in 1881 in the first series of English Men of Letters, this biography by Sir Sidney Colvin of the poet Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) opens with the claim 'few men have ever impressed their peers so much, or the general public so little'. Landor's turbulent life included suspension from both Rugby and Oxford, numerous love affairs, an illegitimate child, and frequent legal trouble over his writing, including a libel case which caused him to leave England permanently. He is best known for his six-volume Imaginary Conversations, a series of dialogues between characters ranging from antiquity to Landor's literary contemporaries. This book not only describes Landor's life but also discusses his poetry and prose. Colvin (1845–1927), who was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and later keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum, also wrote the volume on Keats in this series.
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Landor

Landor

by Sidney Colvin
Landor

Landor

by Sidney Colvin

Overview

Published in 1881 in the first series of English Men of Letters, this biography by Sir Sidney Colvin of the poet Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) opens with the claim 'few men have ever impressed their peers so much, or the general public so little'. Landor's turbulent life included suspension from both Rugby and Oxford, numerous love affairs, an illegitimate child, and frequent legal trouble over his writing, including a libel case which caused him to leave England permanently. He is best known for his six-volume Imaginary Conversations, a series of dialogues between characters ranging from antiquity to Landor's literary contemporaries. This book not only describes Landor's life but also discusses his poetry and prose. Colvin (1845–1927), who was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and later keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum, also wrote the volume on Keats in this series.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108034609
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/03/2011
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

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CHAPTER III. MORE EXPERIMENTS AND MARRIAGE BATH SPAIN — LLANTHONT—COUNT JULIAN. [1805—1814.] As soon as he was bis own master, Landor proceeded to enlarge bis style of living in proportion to bis increased means, or rather beyond such proportion as it turned out. He continued to make Bath his headquarters, and, externally at least, lived there for some time the life of any other young (although, indeed, he was not now so very young) Fortunio. His political opinions were a -source of some scandal, and it was remarked that any other man talking as Landor talked would.have been called to account for it over and over again. Once or twice, indeed, it seems as if collisions had only been averted by the good offices of friends; but there was something about Landor which did not encourage challenge; partly, no doubt,his obvious intrepidity, and partly, we may infer, his habitual exactness on the point of personal courtesy even in the midst of his most startling sallies. Perhaps, too, republicanism seemed to lose something of its odiousness in a gentleman of Landor's known standing and fortune. Common report exaggerated at this time his wealth and his expectations, and his own prodigality in the matter of horses, carriages, servants, plate, pictures, and the like, lent coun- tenancc to the exaggeration. In his personal habits, it must at the same time be noted, Landor was now, as al- ways, frugal. He drank water, or only the lightest wines, / and ate fastidiously indeed, but sparely. All his life ho i would touch no viands but such as were both choice and choicely dressed, and he preferred to eat them alone, or . in the company of one or two, regarding crowded repasts as fitonly for savages. " To dine in company with more than two is a Gaulish and a German thing. I can ha...

Table of Contents

Prefatory note; 1. Birth and parentage; 2. Experiments in life and poetry; 3. More experiments and marriage; 4. Life at Tours; 5. Life at Florence; 6. Fiesole and England; 7. Life at Bath; 8. Second exile and last days; 9. Conclusions.
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