Excerpt from A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Walter Savage LandorFew men of letters can have felt so positively certain as Walter Savage Landor thought he himself was of securing the approbation of posterity. Fewer still, perhaps, after producing such an immense quantity of prose' and verse have left it, at their death, in a state so unlikely either to arouse the interest or to challenge the judgment of coming generations. Oi Landor's writings a considerable portion can only be read in volumes of extreme rarity, and there are some things which seem to have vanished beyond recall. Along with much that might be discarded as perishable and not worth preserving, there is enough hidden away in the pages of defunct and little known periodicals to establish at least one reputation for what Dryden called no ignoble verse and' another for vigorous and incisive prose. According to his own account, Landor threw more behind the grate than would have bought a fair estate. Only by tedious research is it possible to retrieve from the limbo of back numbers as much and more to which he allowed scarcely a fairer chance of survival.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.