Laetitia Elizabeth Landon - Selected Writings (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Broadview Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Broadview Literary Texts
Release date:	October 1997
First published:	October 1997
Authors:	L. El
Volume editors:	Jerome J. McGann • David Riess
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	509
ISBN-13:	978-1-55111-135-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-55111-135-7
Barcode:	9781551111353

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