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Letitia Elizabeth Landon - Selected Writings

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The work of `L.E.L.' began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As a widely envied independent woman in London society, however, she was increasingly the subject of scandalous gossip. Eventually she married the governor of a colony in West Africa, and died under mysterious circumstances soon after arriving in Africa, aged thirty-six. Landon's life contributed very largely to the nineteenth-century archetype of the poet as a breed apart, heroic but doomed. Her poetry, however, was until very recently largely forgotten; this is the first twentieth-century edition of her poems, which the editors describe as "cold and sentimental at the same time, flat and intense." In addition to a broad selection of Landon's poetry and prose, this volume also includes a wide variety of contextual materials and a comprehensive bibliography.

Language: English

Pages: 509

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Broadview Press Inc

Release: October 07, 1997

ISBN: 1551111357

ISBN 13: 9781551111353

Letitia Elizabeth Landon - Selected Writings

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The work of `L.E.L.' began to be published when she was only seventeen, and in her early twenties Landon had already achieved considerable renown. As a widely envied independent woman in London society, however, she was increasingly the subject of scandalous gossip. Eventually she married the governor of a colony in West Africa, and died under mysterious circumstances soon after arriving in Africa, aged thirty-six. Landon's life contributed very largely to the nineteenth-century archetype of the poet as a breed apart, heroic but doomed. Her poetry, however, was until very recently largely forgotten; this is the first twentieth-century edition of her poems, which the editors describe as "cold and sentimental at the same time, flat and intense." In addition to a broad selection of Landon's poetry and prose, this volume also includes a wide variety of contextual materials and a comprehensive bibliography.

Language: English

Pages: 509

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Broadview Press Inc

Release: October 07, 1997

ISBN: 1551111357

ISBN 13: 9781551111353

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