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Walter Savage Landor

 

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Walter Savage Landor : Simoneida

Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I was pleased to find rather an out-of-the-way image, in which the present hour is compared to the shade on the dial.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Walter Savage Landor : Pericles and Aspasia

'[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing, as was her habit during this time [Spring 1906], a description of her surroundings (unpublished).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

  

Walter Savage Landor : Imaginary Conversations

'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this last", which Gissing liked as a "contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy"; Landor's "Imaginary Conversations", for its "perfect prose"; and Scott's "Redgauntlet", for the romantic situations of which he must "try to find parallel kinds in modern life". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's "Conversations with Goethe", "a most delightful book". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

  

Walter Savage Landor : 

'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

  

Walter Savage Landor : 

'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club     Print: Book

 

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