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A distinguished English poet and prose-writer; born at Ipsley Court, Warwickshire, Jan. 30, 1775; died at Florence, Sept. 17, 1864. He inherited a very large fortune; entered the military service of Spain 1808, with a body of troops maintained at his own expense; in 1815 he fixed his residence at Florence. His most celebrated work is "Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen" (1st series, 3 vols., 1824-28; 2d series, 3 vols., 1829). Among his other works are: "Poems" (1795); "Gebir" (1798); "Count Julian; a Tragedy" (1812); "Heroic Idylls" (1814 and 1820), two volumes of Latin verse; "Sati e upon Satirists and Admonition to Detractors" (1836), an attack upon Wordsworth; "The Pentameron", conversations of Petrarch and Boccaccio (1837); "Andrea of Hungary and Giovanni of Naples" (1839); "Fra Rupert, the Last Part of a Triology" (1840); "The Hellenics" (1847); "Italics", verses (1848); "Popery, British and Foreign" (1851); "Letters of an American, mainly on Russia and Revolution" (1854); "Letter to R. W. Emerson" (1856), on Emerson's "English Traits"; "Antony and Octavius: Scenes for the Study" (1856); "Dry Sticks Fagoted by W. S. Landor" (1858); "Savonarola and the Prior of St. Mark" (1860); "Heroic Idylls, with Additional Poems" (1863).