“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”

About Walter Savage Landor

Writer • British

Walter Savage Landor was an English writer and poet, best known for his prose work 'Imaginary Conversations' and his lyrical poetry. A classicist educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Oxford, his rebellious...

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