{"product_id":"laetitia-elizabeth-landon-selected-writings-9781551111353","title":"Laetitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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 \u003cem\u003eLetitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings\u003c\/em\u003e is a cause for celebration.” — Linda Peterson, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Like many Broadview Editions, this one is a model of its kind.” — \u003cem\u003eNineteenth-Century Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eEditorial Preface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eLetitia Elizabeth Landon: A Brief Chronology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWORKS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eThe Literary Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix Songs of Love, Constancy, Romance, Inconstancy, Truth, and Marriage (1821)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003efrom\u003c\/em\u003e Medallion Wafers (1823)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hall of Statues (1831)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eThe Improvisatrice and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (1824)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Improvisatrice [selections]\u003cbr\u003eLines Written Under a Picture of a Girl Burninga Love-Letter\u003cbr\u003eWhen Should Lovers Breathe Their Vows?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eThe Troubadour\u003c\/em\u003e (1825)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk\u003cbr\u003eThe Enchanted Island\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Violet\u003c\/em\u003e (1826)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eErinna\u003cbr\u003eSong (“My heart is like the failing hearth”)\u003cbr\u003eSong (“Where oh where s the chain to fling”)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eThe Venetian Bracelet\u003c\/em\u003e (1828)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePreface to \u003cem\u003eThe Venetian Bracelet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Summer Evening’s Tale\u003cbr\u003eLines of Life\u003cbr\u003eA History of the Lyre\u003cbr\u003eFantasies, inscribed to T. Crofton Croker, Esq.\u003cbr\u003eRevenge\u003cbr\u003eStanzas to the Author of “Mont Blanc,” “Ada,” etc.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eThe Keepsake for 1829\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eVerses (“Lady, thy face is very beautiful”)\u003cbr\u003eThe Altered River\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eRomance and Reality\u003c\/em\u003e (1831)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eChapter I\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eThe Amulet for 1832\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eCorinne at the Cape of Misena\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eTraits and Trials of Early Life\u003c\/em\u003e (1836)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe History of a Child\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eThe New Monthly Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eOn the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry (1832)\u003cbr\u003eStanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans (1835)\u003cbr\u003eOn the Character of Mrs. Hemans s Writings (1835)\u003cbr\u003eFirst Love; or, Constancy in the NineteenthCentury (1836)\u003cbr\u003eThree Extracts from the Diary of a Week (1837)\u003cbr\u003eThe Polar Star (1839)\u003cbr\u003eNight at Sea (1839)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eFisher’s Drawing Room Scrap Book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eSkeleton Group in the Rameswur, Caves of Ellora. Supposed toRepresent the Nuptials of Siva and Parvati (1832)\u003cbr\u003eA Legend of Tintagel Castle (1833)\u003cbr\u003eLinmouth (1833)\u003cbr\u003eHebe (1834)\u003cbr\u003eSassoor, in the Deccan (1835)\u003cbr\u003eHindoo and Mahommedan Buildings (1835)\u003cbr\u003eScene in Kattiawar (1835)\u003cbr\u003eThe Fairy of the Fountains (1835)\u003cbr\u003eImmolation of a Hindoo Widow (1836)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003efrom\u003c\/em\u003e Scenes in London — I. Piccadilly\u003cbr\u003ePulo Penang (1836)\u003cbr\u003eThe Young Destructive (1836)\u003cbr\u003eExpectation (1837)\u003cbr\u003eFelicia Hemans (1838)\u003cbr\u003eThe Tombs of the Kings of Golconda (1838)\u003cbr\u003eCaptain Cook\u003cbr\u003eThe Church of St. John, and the Ruins of Lahneck Castle, formerly belonging to the Templars\u003cbr\u003eDisenchantment (1838)\u003cbr\u003eThe Village Bells (1839)\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \u003cem\u003eFlowers of Loveliness\u003c\/em\u003e (1838)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Hyacinth\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A: Contemporary Reviews\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B: Poems Written for and about “L.E.L.”\u003cbr\u003eAppendix C: “Lezione per L’Amore” [first published version of “Song. (Where, oh, where’s the chain to fling)”]\u003cbr\u003eAppendix D. Index to the Poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ed. Glenn Dibert-Himes and Cynthia Lawford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041302348119,"sku":"9781551111353","price":27.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551111353.jpg?v=1750949725","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/laetitia-elizabeth-landon-selected-writings-9781551111353","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}