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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon : The record
[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His soldier's cloak a shroud/ His churchyard is the open field/ Three times it has been ploughed... L.E.L.' [total =9 x 4 line verses]
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown
Letitia Elizabeth Landon : The Troubadour [extract]
[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a picture by Howard/ the subject - fairies on the sea shore./ First fairy/ My home & haunt are in every leaf/ Whose life is a summer day , bright & brief/ I live in the depths of the tulip's bower/ I drink the dew of the citrus flower/ ...'[total = 4 verses of 10,10,8,12 lines with chorus]
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Print: Unknown
Letitia Elizabeth Landon : poems
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841: 'Poor LEL! Just as she had outstretched her hand to touch nature, & to feel thrillingly there that is poetry is more than fantasy .. to die so! I have dropped tears on tears over some of her later poems'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Letitia Elizabeth Landon : L’Improvisatrice
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines by LEL beginning 'It is the spirit’s bitterest pain / To love – to be beloved again'.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Austen
Letitia Elizabeth Landon : On Sir Walter Scott
From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "On Sir Walter Scott" by LEL.
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