Letitia Elizabeth Landon - Selected Writings (Broadview Literary Texts Series) - Softcover

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551111357 ISBN 13: 9781551111353

Publisher: Broadview Press, 1997

Synopsis

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 title

About the Author:

Jerome McGann of the University of Virginia, the author of The Romantic Ideology, The Poetics of Sensibility and many other works, is one of the world’s leading authorities on Romantic and nineteenth-century literature.

Daniel Riess is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas, Austin.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1551111357
• ISBN 13: 9781551111353
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 509
• Editor: McGann Jerome, Riess Daniel