This month is Women’s History Month, so through the end of March, I will share a daily female poet from history along with 2 poems they have written.
While this is a fun way to celebrate women, I am also using it as an opportunity to educate myself more on the history and people of poetry. Even if poetry is a foreign language to you, this is also meant to be a way to learn history behind a form of art. So that’s 2 things you can get out of it – history and art!
For day three, I chose Letitia Elizabeth Landon. She published her first collection, The Fate of Adelaide: A Swiss Tale of Romance; and Other Poems, with the financial aid of her grandmother, and she wrote novels in addition to poetry.
The Poetry Foundation has an article full of historical information and inspiration for Landon. You can read it in full here.
The first poem I chose for Landon is “Change." It describes the experience of growing up with a friend, parting ways, and reuniting - only to find how different you both are after years apart.
You can read the poem here.
The second poem is “Lines of Life." Its beginning stanza opens with this incredible line "...I early learnt to make my heart suffice itself, and seek support and sympathy in its own depths."
You can read it in full here.
Photo from Poetry Foundation
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