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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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