LANDOR, WALTER SAVAGE

(17751864), Eng. prose-writer and poet; 6. Warwick; ed. Rugby (removed at reuest of headmaster) and Trinity Coll.,| teer force, raised at his expense, in| Peninsular, 1808; traveled in Europe for several years; finally settled Florence; friend of heh tel and lites ing. His works are dist in gui she y iby of style and delicacy of diction; Sometimes striving after beauty leads to obscurity; wrote fluently in Eng., Lat. and Ital. Best-known works are Poems, 1795; Gebir (revised ed1803) Count Julian, 1812; Imaginary Conver-| Hellenics, 1847.