Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

Book excerpt: The poetry of Walter Savage Landor spans the final years of the Enlightenment to the greatest achievements of the Victorian Empire. Landor is now regarded as a ‘poet’s poet’, whose sensitive and beautiful poetry won the admiration of Browning, Yeats, Ezra Pound and Robert Frost. His celebrated love poems were inspired by a succession of female romantic ideals – Ione, Ianthe, Rose Aylmer and Rose Paynter — while his "domestic" poems concerning his sister and children reveal equal finesse. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Landor’s collected poetical works, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Landor's life and works * Concise introduction to the life and poetry of Walter Savage Landor * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Rare collections available in no other digital publication * Excellent formatting of the poems * Includes a selection of Landor's prose * Features a bonus biography - discover Landor's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: due to Landor’s method of titling the majority of his poems with Roman numerals, this Delphi edition does not feature our usual chronological and alphabetical contents tables. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Walter Savage Landor BRIEF INTRODUCTION: WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The Poetry Collections GEBIR COLLECTION OF 1846 THE HELLENICS THE LAST FRUIT OF AN OLD TREE DRY STICKS MISCELLANEOUS POEMS FROM “HEROIC IDYLS” WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS, 1863 The Play COUNT JULIAN Selected Prose IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS: A SELECTION THE PENTAMERON CITATION AND EXAMINATION OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE The Biography WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR by Leslie Stephen Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set