Laetitia Elizabeth Landon : Selected Writings Paperback / softback
by L.E.L.
Part of the Broadview Literary Texts series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:509 pages
- Publisher:Broadview Press Ltd
- Publication Date:07/10/1997
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- ISBN:9781551111353
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:509 pages
- Publisher:Broadview Press Ltd
- Publication Date:07/10/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9781551111353
