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Letitia Elizabeth Landon - Selected Writings (Broadview Literary Texts Series)
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ISBN: 1551111357
Author: Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
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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. Landons 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 Landons poetry and prose, this volume also includes a wide variety of contextual materials and a comprehensive bibliography.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon - Selected Writings (Broadview Literary Texts Series)

