Reading On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday | Alexandria
Read On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor. Defying death itself, Landor's meditation on aging radiates an electrifying optimism rare in Victorian poetry. His radical vision of late-life vitality challenged the era's grim view of aging - and still confronts our youth-obsessed culture. Even at 75, he saw winter years not as decline but as a peak of wisdom and creative power.