- La Roche, Sophie von
- Laforgue, Jules
- The Lake Poets
- Lamb, Charles
- Lamb, Mary
- Lanier, Sidney
- Larra, Mariano José de
- Lavater, Johann Kaspar
- Lazarus, Emma
- Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
- Leopardi, Giacomo
- Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich (Vol. 126)
- Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich (Vol. 47)
- Les fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire
- Les Liaisons dangereuses, Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos
- Levy, Amy
- Li Ju‐chen
- Literature of Missionaries in the Nineteenth Century
- Literature of the American Cowboy
- Literature of the Antebellum South
- Literature of the California Gold Rush
- Literature of the New South
- Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
- Little Women
- Lönnrot, Elias
- Looking Backward: 2000-1887, Edward Bellamy
- Lowell, James Russell
- Luddism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Lynching in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
