Walter Savage Landor - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

In the first season episode of Cheers "The Spy Who Came In For a Cold One," Ellis Rabb's guest character plagiarizes Landor's "She I Love (Alas in Vain!)" when reciting poetry to Diane. He also plagiarizes Christina Rossetti's "A Birthday."

In Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full", Landor's poem "I Strove with None" is mentioned in a discussion in location 8,893 (Kindle).

Landor's "I Strove with None" is also quoted in Somerset Maugham's "The Razor's Edge."

In Josephine Pullein-Thompson's "Pony Club Team" the second novel in her "West Barsetshire Pony Club" series, Landor's "I Strove With None" is quoted by both Noel Kettering and Henry Thornton

Landor's 'I Strove with None' forms the chorus of the Zatopeks' song Death and the Hobo from their album, Damn Fool Music.

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