LEL's Medallion Wafer Poems in Context
A. M. Coleman
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Introduction
Portrait of Landon by Daniel Maclise
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) was born on August 14, 1802. She rose to fame by publishing her poetry in periodicals, like The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, later transitioning to novels as the literary market moved in that direction. |
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The Literary Gazette, and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences was an enormously popular weekly magazine. It curated everything from excerpt-heavy new-book reviews and correspondence from abroad to society gossip and poetry.
This exhibit considers some of Landon's earliest work, the "Medallion Wafer" poems, which were published in The Literary Gazette over a period of several weeks in 1823. (Click here to see the first of these in context.) This series not only works intertextually with other material in the Gazette in a process of symbiotic promotion and commoditization but also raises questions about both the poet and the poem as market commodities.
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This exhibit considers some of Landon's earliest work, the "Medallion Wafer" poems, which were published in The Literary Gazette over a period of several weeks in 1823. (Click here to see the first of these in context.) This series not only works intertextually with other material in the Gazette in a process of symbiotic promotion and commoditization but also raises questions about both the poet and the poem as market commodities.
Click "Next" to continue reading about the Gazette.
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