Laetitia Elizabeth Landon’s “The Improvisatrice” was first published in an 1824 volume entitled,

. It was Landon’s second volume, put forth after she had spent several years writing verse for the

under the moniker “L. E. L.” The book was so popular as to go through six editions that very year, and it affirmed Landon as a dominant voice in popular literary culture during the 1820s and 1830s. The title poem painted a landmark picture of the improvising, heartfelt woman poet, one which subsequently had a large effect on other women’s poetry, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s

(1856), Felicia Hemans’ “Properzia Rossi” (1828), not to mention Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s

(1828) and Thomas…

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Citation: Singer, Katherine. "The Improvisatrice and Other Poems". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 November 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=20422, accessed 21 November 2024.]