Download or read book L E L written by Lucasta Miller and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of Prussic acid in her hand. She was one of the most famous English poets of her day: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, known by her initials 'L.E.L.' What was she doing in Africa? Was her death an accident, as the inquest claimed? Or had she committed suicide, or even been murdered? To her contemporaries, she was an icon, hailed as the 'female Byron', admired by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Heinrich Heine, the young Bronte sisters and Edgar Allan Poe. However, she was also a woman with secrets, the mother of three illegitimate children whose existence was subsequently wiped from the record. After her death, she became the subject of a cover-up which is only now unravelling. Too scandalous for her reputation to survive, Letitia Landon was a brilliant woman who made a Faustian pact in a ruthless world. She embodied the post-Byronic era, the 'strange pause' between the Romantics and the Victorians. This new investigation into the mystery of her life, work and death excavates a whole lost literary culture.
Download or read book Letitia Elizabeth Landon Selected Writings written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1997-10-07 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Download or read book The Improvisatrice and Other Poems written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heath s Book of Beauty written by L E L (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Fate of Adelaide a Swiss Romantic Tale written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Metrical Romance written by Serena Baiesi and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) was one of the leading women poets of the second generation of English Romantic writers. Following her predecessor Walter Scott and her contemporary Lord Byron, she was a fluent practitioner and essential innovator of the metrical romance and exerted a strong influence on the work of Victorian poets (especially Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti). This book analyses Landon's poetics, with particular reference to the close relationship between the narrative poem as literary genre and its gender implications. Landon was both an eclectic writer and a literary businesswoman: she was an extremely effective promoter of her literary work in order to support her independent life in London. Furthermore she was the editor of several annuals and gift-books, wrote for magazines, and published numerous poems, novels, and editorials. Her active life and mysterious and premature death in Africa attracted the curiosity of many biographers during the twentieth century, but only in recent times has critical attention been paid to her rich literary output. This volume aims to discuss and analyse the work of a talented artist whose metrical romance strongly influenced the poetics of late Romanticism, and prefigured a highly successful genre widely adopted during the Victorian age: the dramatic monologue.
Download or read book Romance and Reality written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon The golden violet Erinna Miscellaneous poems written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon New Edition written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Women Poets of the Romantic Era written by Paula R. Feldman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-01-19 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume not only documents the richness of their literary contributions but changes our thinking about the poetry of the English Romantic period.
Download or read book Poems About Death written by Eric v.d. Luft and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight centuries of poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Stephen Vincent Benét, Bruce Bennett, Bob Beru, Ambrose Bierce, Deborah Boe, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Brontë, Rupert Brooke, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Hart Crane, Rob Dickenson, John Donne, Ernest Christopher Dowson, Bekka Eaton, Shloyme Ettinger, Pam Freeman, Charles Kelsey Gaines, Mozart Guerrier, Joe Hill, Ibrahim Honjo, Violet Jacob, James Weldon Johnson, John Keats, Christopher Kennedy, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Nikolaus Lenau, K. Lee Lerner, Eric v.d. Luft, Katharyn Howd Machan, Guillaume de Machaut, Gérard de Nerval, Friedrich Nietzsche, Paracelsa, Sarah Penn, Patricia Piety, August Graf von Platen, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Lola Ridge, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jay Rogoff, Isaac Rosenberg, Tanya Rucosky Noakes, Bonnie A. St. Andrews, David Saxton, William Shakespeare, Brielle Stanton, Bayard Taylor, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Georg Trakl, Paul Valéry, Tobias Vargrim, François Villon, Phillis Wheatley, Anna Wickham, Elinor Wylie, William Butler Yeats, and of course, everyone's favorite: Anonymous.
Download or read book The Troubadour written by Letitia Elizabeth Landon and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
