Sign-In
Cart
L.E.L.: Poems
Paperback
Series: Bell & Brier Classics
Publisher Price: $17.99
Publisher: Bell & Brier Press
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A beautifully curated journey through haunted romance, female longing, ruined beauty, and the early grave-from the poet once known simply as L.E.L.
One of the most celebrated and widely read poets of the early nineteenth century, Letitia Elizabeth Landon pioneered a distinctly feminine Romanticism in which beauty and sorrow, passion and abandonment, artistic ambition and early death are inseparably entwined.
Hailed in her lifetime as the female Byron, Landon transformed the language of myth, folklore, and chivalric romance into something darker and more psychological. Her poems give voice to women as artists, lovers, dreamers, prisoners, mourners, legendary heroines, and forgotten ghosts-women whose deepest affections become at once their glory and their undoing.
Carefully selected and arranged as a continuous emotional journey, this volume leads the reader from the haunted lives of Sappho and Erinna, through moonlit vows, burning love letters, forsaken lovers, ruined castles, supernatural legends, shipwrecks, early graves, and distant village bells. Alongside beloved shorter lyrics are substantial narrative works including Erinna, The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, and The Fairy of the Fountains.
Both an inviting introduction for new readers and a beautiful tribute for longtime admirers, L.E.L.: Poems restores one of Romanticism's most compelling and misunderstood voices to the darkly enchanting world she helped create.
Also from
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
Letitia Elizabeth Landon - Castruccio Castrucani: "Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love"
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
Paperback
Letitia Elizabeth Landon - The Short Stories Volume I: "Distinction is purchased at the expense of sympathy"
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
Paperback
The Golden Violet: With Its Tales of Romance and Chivalry; and Other Poems
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
Hardcover
Letitia Elizabeth Landon - The Short Stories Volume II: "No two men could be of more opposite dispositions''
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
Paperback
The Miscellaneous Poetical Works of L.E.L., Author of "The Improvisatric, "The Golden Violet," & C
Landon, Letitia Elizabeth
Paperback
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Alighieri, Dante
Pitavy, Francois
Paperback
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (by the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback