Garnett, Richard et al. “Introduction”. The Ruba’yat of Omar Khayam, edited by Richard Garnett, translated by. Jessie Ellen Cadell, John Lane, 1899, p. v - xxx.
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Walter Savage Landor
Standard Name: Landor, Walter Savage
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | D'Orsay erected a mausoleum for her remains in the churchyard at Chambourcy near St-Germain-en-Laye. Inscriptions on her tombstone were written in English by Barry Cornwall
and in Latin by Walter Savage Landor
. Though... |
| death | Jessie Ellen Cadell | She was buried, says Richard Garnett, in the cemetery
which holds the remains of Mrs. Browning
and Landor
and Theodore Parker
and so many other gifted men and women of English race. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Spender | ES
's father, Doctor John Cottle Spender
, was a friend of Walter Savage Landor
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Riddell | Her daughter, Anna Maria
, married a naval officer, Charles Montagu Walker
, and had eight children. Most of her inheritance vanished in mortgages and contested ownership. One of MR
's grandsons took an interest... |
| Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | In Italy GC
met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood
, Caroline Norton
's elder sister. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 26 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 37 |
| Friends, Associates | Jessie White Mario | While visiting Italy, JWM
stayed with Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
at Casa Guidi. (Years later they had an unpleasant public debate over Italian politics.) She met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
in Rome, beginning... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | During her months in Florence, FPC
visited the Brownings, Thomas Adolphus Trollope
, and Walter Savage Landor
. While there she also became a close friend of Mary Somerville
. Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin, 1894, 2 vols. 2: 346-9, 358 |
| Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | Marguerite Blessington
met Alphonse de Lamartine
and Walter Savage Landor
in Florence. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896. 133, 141 |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Holford | Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott
, and although their relationship got off... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | The Lambs also knew well members of related circles, Robert Southey
, William Hazlitt
, and Thomas De Quincey
. In the first year of her new life Mary met William Godwin
, Thomas Manning |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Through the theological writer Dr Robert Herbert Brabant
(an early admirer of George Eliot), Lynn at this time met Walter Savage Landor
, whom she had long admired, and with whom she became close friends... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Lively | The title comes from Walter Savage Landor
's stately, self-dramatising credo: Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art (in which Landor presents this line as part of his last words or self-chosen epitaph). The... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Chisholm | Walter Savage Landor
paid tribute in his ode To Caroline Chisholm, printed in The Examiner, to her arduous . . . heaven-guided enterprise. qtd. in Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957. 164 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Somerville | The diary (in the possession of ES
's Coghill relations) is a wonderfully vivid and engaging text, from youth to old age. It delights in anecdote and comicality, but touches the heart with its stark... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Boyle | Dedicated to Walter Savage Landor
from his friend and admirer, Boyle, Mary. My Portrait Gallery, and Other Poems. Privately printed by Bradbury and Evans, 1849. prelims |
Timeline
30 January 1775: Walter Savage Landor, poet and essayist,...
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30 January 1775
Walter Savage Landor
, poet and essayist, was born probably at Ipsley Court, Warwick.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1795: Walter Savage Landor's first publication,...
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1795
Walter Savage Landor
's first publication, Poems, appeared; he later suppressed this publication.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
547
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
After February 1806: Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea,...
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After February 1806
Walter Savage Landor
published Simonidea, which included the well-known poem Rose Aylmer.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
547
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
March 1824-May 1829: Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary...
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March 1824-May 1829
Walter Savage Landor
published Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen.
Wheeler, Stephen, and Thomas J. Wise. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage Landor. Bibliographical Society, 1919.
57-69
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
March 1836: Walter Savage Landor published Pericles and...
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March 1836
Walter Savage Landor
published Pericles
and Aspasia, a collection of imaginary letters between the Athenian statesman and the learned and cultivated courtesan.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
441 (1836): 253
Wheeler, Stephen, and Thomas J. Wise. A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage Landor. Bibliographical Society, 1919.
87
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Elwin, Malcolm. Landor, a Replevin. Macdonald, 1958.
285
17 September 1864: Walter Savage Landor, poet and essayist,...
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17 September 1864
Walter Savage Landor
, poet and essayist, died in Florence, Italy, and was buried in the English Cemetery
there.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Texts
Landor, Walter Savage et al. “Some Letters of Walter Savage Landor”. Century: A Popular Quarterly, 1888, pp. 511-21.