LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE, son of Walter Lander and of Elizabeth Savage, was b. at Ipsley Court, Warwickshire, in 1775. lie was educated at Rugby, and at Trinity mi. lege, Oxford, quittino. the university without taking a degree. 'He succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father. In 1808 he raised a body of men at his own expense, and joined the Spanish patriots under Blake. He was made a col. in the service of Spain, but resigned his commission on the restoration of king Ferdinand. In 1811 he married Miss Julia ThrillHer, of Bath. After his marriage he resided first at Tours, then at Florence, where he bought an estate. He first became known as the author of Count Julian, which was followed by a poem called Gebir. In 1820 appeared Idyllic Ileroiea.(in Latin), and in his Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen (5 vols.). Landor was a thorough classical scholar, and his Greek and Roman characters speak as we should expect the ancient heroes to have spoken. He is
greater as a prose writer than as a poet; but, according to Emerson, who visited him in 1833. nature meant him rather for action than for literature. " He has," says Emerson, " an English appetite for action and heroes." In 1835 he published Letters of a Con se•vative; in the same year, a Satire on Satirists, and Admonition to Detractors; in 1837, The Pentameron and Pentalogue; in 1847, The Hellenics; in 1848, Imaginary Con,verea• tions of King Carlo Alberto and the _Duchess Belgioioso on the Affairs and Prospects of Italy; in 1851, Popery, British and Foreign; in 1853, Last Fruit off an Old Tree; in 1854, Letters of an American. He died at Florence, Sept., 1854. His Life and were published in 1876, in 8 vols., the first volume being a biography by John Foster.