Landor

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

WALTER SAVAGE, an English poet; born in Warwick, England, Jan. 30, 1775. He was educated at Rugby and Oxford. He inherited considerable wealth. During the Peninsular War, raising a troop of cavalry at his valry at his the Sesnich own cost, he fought for the Spanish of Ferdinand cause till the restoration of Ferdinand VII. After his marriage, in 1811, he , in 1811, he took up his abode in Florence, where he enes, where he resided for several years, and where and where many of his works were written. His principal poetical works are "Gebir, Count Julian and other Poems"; "Hellenics"; "Poems and Inscriptions"; "Dry D Old Tree Sticks"; and "Last Fruit of an Old Tree" (1853). His most important prose work is the "Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen," which apwhich appeared in five volumes between 1824 and LANDRES-ET-ST. GEORGES 410 1829. Landor neither sought nor won Academy on Academ popularity. Haughty and of a savage rank independence, he probably despised his his best is his bes of Paw" contemporaries. His works, most of Paw " ( Stalking " them of exquisite finish, rank high with th Stalkin discriminating minds. He died in Flor- Life " ( r-Life" ( ing for ing for ence, Italy, Sept. 17, 1864. from from LANDRES-ET-ST. GEORGES, village herd's herd's of tinguis near Buzancy, in the department of tinguished Ardennes, France, which was the scene ne Society Society " id Old D of considerable fighting in the World Old Dog War. During the war it was occupied ed the La the Law by the Germans and suffered greatly in in (1842) ( 1842); the struggle in the Meuse Valley. Pop. at Bay " Pat Bay about 500. loo" loo " ( 1850 ( 1851); (1851)