Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I was pleased to find rather an out-of-the-way image, in which the present hour is compared to the shade on the dial.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
'[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing,
as was her habit during this time [Spring 1906], a description of her surroundings (unpublished).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen Print: Book
'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this last", which Gissing liked as a "contribution to - or rather onslaught upon - Political Economy"; Landor's "Imaginary Conversations", for its "perfect prose"; and Scott's "Redgauntlet", for the romantic situations of which he must "try to find parallel kinds in modern life". Gissing kept up the habit throughout his life: he was always reading and always recommending books to his friends and family. In the early 1880s he read a lot of German, and to his brother, Algernon, particularly recommended Eckerman's "Conversations with Goethe", "a most delightful book". Meanwhile his sister, Margaret, was reading Schiller under his direction'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing Print: Book
'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson Print: Book
'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Harris & other readings by other members'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Members of the XII Book Club Print: Book
'I essayed a new author the other day whom we have often heard praised and of whom I hoped
great things — Landor: but the book I got, a series of imaginary letters called "Pericles and
Aspasia" proved rather disappointing. Indeed I am afraid my appreciation of English prose is
very limited, and I certainly cannot fatten on mere prose when the matter is not interesting.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
