Excerpt from The Early Poems of Walter Savage Landor: A Study of His Development and Debt to Milton, Submitted as a Doctoral Thesis to the Faculty of Philosophy in the Wilhelm's University of Münster in Westphalia These words explain clearly enough why the promise of Gebir was never fulfilled. If Landor was indeed what Southey saw in him, a great poet in the making, no other example is needed of the blighting inuence which popular neglect may have upon genius. Enough, however, remains of his early work to form the basis of a study of his poetic aims and inspiration. The poems to be considered were written during the last decade of the eighteenth and the first of the nineteenth century. They thus belong to a period Of peculiar importance both in literary and in political history. During those years English poetry was set free from the shackles put upon it by Pope and his imitators, and drew fresh life from the ideas which inspired the American and French Revolutions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.