“What is the light of a poet's name,
If it is not his country that hallows his fame?
Where may he look for guerdon so fair
As the honour and praise that await him there?
His name will be lost and his grave forgot,
If the tears of his country preserve them not!...”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Improvisatrice (1824)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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