Laetitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings (Broadview Literary Texts) - Softcover

L.E.L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551111357 ISBN 13: 9781551111353

Publisher: Broadview Press, 1997

Synopsis

Selected Writings is the first 20th century edition of Laetitia Landon''s poems. She was the archetypal h eroic but doomed poet of 19th century British literature and died in Africa at the age of 36 after marrying the governor of a slaving post. '

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Review:

"In the 1820s and 30s Letitia Elizabeth Landon was the pre-eminent poetess of romantic love and, after the death of Byron, the most popular poet of her generation. Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess have assembled a useful and imaginative collection of Landon's major works. The result is an edition--complete with excellent historical and biographical introduction, reliable notes, and extensive bibliography--that will introduce students and scholars to this important, if neglected, nineteenth-century woman poet and help them understand why Elizabeth Barrett found Landon, with her 'raw bare powers, ' such a formidable predecessor. The Publication of Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings is a cause for celebration." -- Linda Peterson, Yale University

"Like many Broadview Editions, this one is a model of its kind." -- Nineteenth-Century Literature

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1551111357
• ISBN 13: 9781551111353
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 509
• Editor: McGann Jerome J., Riess David