Anthologies

Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings

Edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess

Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 1997

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Editorial Preface

Introduction

Letitia Elizabeth Landon: A Brief Chronology

Works

from The Literary Gazette

Six Songs of Love, Constancy, Romance, Inconstancy, Truth, and Marriage (1821)

from Medallion Wafers (1823)

Introduction

Conclusion

The Hall of Statues (1831)

from The Improvisatrice and Other Poems (1824)

The Improvisatirce [selections]

Lines Written Under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love-Letter

When Should Lovers Breathe Their Vows?

from The Troubadour (1825)

A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk

The Enchanted Island

from The Golden Violet (1826)

Erinna

Song ("My heart is like the failing hearth")

Song ("Where oh where's the chain to fling")

from The Venetian Bracelet (1828)

Preface to The Venetian Bracelet

A Summer Evening's Tale

Lines of Life

A History of the Lyre

Fantasies, inscribed to T. Crofton Croker, Esq.

Revenge

Stanzas to the Author of "Mont Blanc," "Ada," etc.

from The Keepsake for 1829

Verses ("Lady, thy face is very beautiful")

The Altered River

from Romance and Reality (1831)

Chapter 1

from The Amulet for 1832

Corinne at the Cap of Misena

from Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

The History of a Child

from The New Monthly Magazine

On the Ancient and Modern Influence of Poetry (1832)

Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans (1835)

On the Character of Mrs. Hemans's Writings (1835)

First Love; or, Constancy in the Nineteenth Century (1836)

Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week (1837)

The Polar Star (1839)

Night at Sea (11839)

from Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book

Skeleton Group in the Rameswur, Caves of Ellora. Supposed to Represent the

Nuptials of Siva and Parvati (1832)

A Legend of Tintagel Castle (1833)

Linmouth (1833)

Hebe (1834)

Sassoor, in the Deccan (1835)

Hindoo and Mahommedan Buildings (1835)

Scene in Kattiawar (1835)

The Fairy of the Fountains (1835)

Immolation of a Hindoo Widow (1836)

from Scenes in London--I. Piccadilly

Pulo Penang (1836)

The Young Destructive (1836)

Expectation (1837)

Felicia Hemans (1838)

The Tombs of the Kings of Golconda (1838)

Captain Cook

The Church of St. John, and the Ruins of Lahneck Castle, formerly belonging to the Templars

Disenchantment (1838)

The Village Bells (1839)

from Flowers of Loveliness (1838)

The Hyacinth

Notes

Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews

Appendix B: Poems Written for and about "L.E.L."

Appendix C: "Lezione per L'Amore" [first published version of "Song. (Where, oh, where's the chain to fling)"]

Appendix D. Index to the Poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, ed.Glenn Dibert-Himes and Cynthia Lawford

Bibliography


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