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Landor, Walter Savage
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Landor's long life was filled with endless quarrels, lawsuits, and controversy. His temper was violent; his convictions, absolute. But his poetic writings are astonishingly serene, disciplined, and elevated. His youthful Gebir (1798) is the best of his long narrative poems, but it is with the short lyric that he is an enduring master. His prose Imaginary Conversations (1824--53) remains widely read.
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