Laetitia Elizabeth Landon : Selected Writings (9781551111353)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 509 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 216 x 25mm | 612.35g
• Publication date 30 Oct 1997
• Publisher Broadview Press Ltd
• Publication City/Country Peterborough, Canada
• Language English
• Illustrations note Illustrations, ports.
• ISBN10 1551111357
• ISBN13 9781551111353
• Bestsellers rank 1,015,773

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