Mild is the Parting Year
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Poet Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
Subjects Time & Brevity, Living, Disappointment & Failure
Holidays New Year
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
Biography
As a poet, Walter Savage Landor has enjoyed a permanent minority reputation for the classicism of his epigrams and idyls. He was a seriously emulative classicist and wrote a significant proportion of his poetry in Latin, which was also the original language of some of the long and short poems that he published in English. Indeed, he was deterred from making it his chief medium only by the example of John Milton and the advice of . . .
Poems by Walter Savage Landor
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Time & Brevity, Living, Disappointment & Failure
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
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