Letitia Elizabeth Landon, born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London, and dead on 15 October 1838 at Cape Coast Castle on the Gold Coast, was one of the most celebrated, industrious, and misunderstood writers of the British Romantic period. Known to her immense contemporary readership by the initials “L.E.L.,” she became a literary phenomenon while still very young: a poet whose verses appeared week after week in maga…
“In this consists the difference between painting and poetry: the painter reproduces others, — the poet reproduces himself.”
Neighbourhood:
Love Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
Amy Judith Levy was born in Clapham, south London, on 10 November 1861, and died in London on 10 September 1889. In fewer than twenty-eight years she became one of the most distinctive writers of the late Victorian period: a poet of compressed feeling and formal intelligence, a novelist of urban and communal life, an essayist alert to women’s changing circumstances, and a figure of unusual importance in the histories…
“She is not a poet of nature, in the ordinary sense of the term.”
Neighbourhood:
Decadent Poets, Edwardian Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Longing, Sorrow
