L. E. L. was the pen-name of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838), a "wild and wayward girl" whose outspoken poems about love, hypocrisy, social injustice, religions, and death were discussed and debated avidly during her short life, but lost favor afterwards as Victorian notions of propriety became dominant. This wide-ranging collection includes 60 of her most characteristic poems. Introduction Apologue A Girl Burning a Love-Letter Change Maid Marian Portrait of a Lady Love Nursed by Solitude A Girl at her Devotions Juliet after the Masquerade 1827 Moon Changes The Spirit and the Angel of Death The Lost Star The Feast of Life Mont Blanc Venetian Bracelet - Epigraphs Lines of Life Poetical Portaits 5 Hurdwar Benares Christ Crowned with Thorns Christ Blessing the Bread The Flight into Egypt Madonna and Child Hagar and Ishmael St John in the Wilderness The Nativity Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces The Magdalen The Infant Christ with Flowers Nathan and David The Incredulity of St Thomas The Infant St John Christ Blessing Little Children Hindoo and Mahommedan Buildings St Mawgan Church and Lanhern Nunnery The Fairy of the Fountains 1 The Fairy of the Fountains 2 Durham Cathedral Piccadilly The Savoyard in Grosvenor Square The City Churchyard Oxford Street The Death of Mrs Hemans Rydal Water and Grasmere Lake Ethel Churchill - Epigraphs Louise, Duchesse of La Valliere The Portrait of Lord Byron Santa Rosalia Ode to Retirement
