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A Minor Poet and Other Verse

A Minor Poet and Other Verse

Levy, Amy
Editions, Mint

Hardcover

Series: Mint Editions (Reading with Pride)

General Poetry

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ISBN13: 9798888971550
Publisher: Mint Editions
Published: Aug 3 2021
Pages: 64
Language: English

A Minor Poet and Other Verse (1884) is a poetry collection by Amy Levy. Published when the poet was only twenty-three years old, A Minor Poet and Other Verse is the work of a pioneering writer and feminist whose poetry and prose explores the concept of the New Woman while illuminating the realities of Jewish life in nineteenth century London. I am sad / Here in this gracious city, whose white walls / Gleam snow-like in the sunlight; whose fair shrines / Are filled with wondrous images of gods; / Upon whose harbour's bosom ride tall ships, / Black-masted, fraught with fragrant merchandise; / Whose straight-limbed people, in fair stuffs arrayed, / Do throng from morn till eve the sunny streets. Brought to a foreign land by her lover Jason, Medea becomes an exile in body and soul. Unable to assimilate within a culture dedicated to commerce and flowing with hatred and vanity, she despairs and longs for release. In this monologue, Levy perhaps projects some of her own feelings as a feminist and lesbian living in Victorian England. Othered already through her Jewish identity, Levy struggled throughout her life with depression. In Xantippe, a poem inspired by Socrates' wife, Levy imagines a monologue from a woman emerging from despair into hope, who sees a rosy glimmer at the casement and cries O fling it wide [...] and give me light! This edition Amy Levy's A Minor Poet and Other Verse is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

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