BS: W.S. Landor, Poet (1775-1864)

Subject: ADD: Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher(WS Landor)
From: The Sandman
Date: 13 May 24 - 04:02 AM

Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.
Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:
I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks; and I am ready to depart.”
- Walter Savage Landor

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44562/dying-speech-of-an-old-philosopher

Subject: RE: BS: W.S. Landor, Poet (1775-1864)
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 May 24 - 11:37 AM

Apparently a poets poet praised by dylan thomas, shelley,swinburne etc

Subject: RE: BS: W.S. Landor, Poet (1775-1864)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 18 May 24 - 05:31 PM

BBC Radio4 for ~3 weeks

Judith Palmer presents the first of four programmes in which she joins enthusiasts up and down the land who meet to enjoy and promote their favourite poetry, beginning with the Walter Savage Landor Society of Warwick.

Producer - Viv Beeby

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z68l