A London Plane-Tree - And Other Verse

Amy Levy

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“A London Plane-Tree - And Other Verse” is an 1889 collection of poetry by Amy Levy. Amy Judith Levy (1861–1889) was a British poet, novelist, and essayist. She was notably the first Jewish woman to study at Cambridge university, and she became well-known for her feminist positions as well as relationships with both male and female political and literature figures. Contents include: “A London Plane-Tree”, “Love, Dreams, & Death”, “Moods and Thoughts”, and “Odds and Ends”. Her other works include: “Xantippe and Other Verse” (1881), “The Romance of a Shop” (1888), “Reuben Sachs” (1888), and “Miss Meredith” (1889). As part of our poetry imprint "Ragged Hand" Read & Co. is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry complete with an introductory biography of the author by Richard Garnett.

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• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 07 décembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528791397
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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A LONDON PLANE-TREE
AND OTHER VERSE
By
AMY LEVY
WITH A BIOGRAPHY BY RICHARD GARNETT

First published in 1889



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Mine is an urban Muse, and bound By some strange law to paven ground.
— A ustin Dobson


Contents
AMY LEVY
By Ric hard Garnett
TO CLEM ENTINA BLACK
A LONDON PLANE-TREE
A LONDO N PLANE-TREE
LO NDON IN JULY
A MARCH D AY IN LONDON
BALLADE O F AN OMNIBUS
BALLADE OF A SPE CIAL EDITION
STRAW I N THE STREET
BETWEEN THE SHOWERS
OUT OF TOWN
THE PIANO-ORGAN
LONDON POETS
THE VI LLAGE GARDEN
LOVE, DREAMS, & DEATH
NEW LO VE, NEW LIFE
IMPOTENS
YO UTH AND LOVE
THE DREAM
ON T HE THRESHOLD
THE BIRCH-TREE AT LOSCHWITZ
IN THE NIGHT
BORDERLAND
AT DAWN
LAST WORDS
JUNE
A REMINISCENCE
THE SEQUEL TO “A R EMINISCENCE”
IN THE M ILE END ROAD
CO NTRADICTIONS
TWILIGHT
IN SEPTEMBER
MOODS AND THOUGHTS
T HE OLD HOUSE
LOHENGRIN
ALMA MATER
IN THE BLACK FOREST
CAPTIVITY
THE TWO TERRORS
THE PROM ISE OF SLEEP
THE L AST JUDGMENT
FELO DE SE
THE LOST FRIEND
CAMBRIDGE IN THE LONG
T O VERNON LEE
THE OLD POET
ON TH E WYE IN MAY
OH, IS IT LOVE?
IN THE NOWER
THE EN D OF THE DAY
ODDS AND ENDS
A WALL FLOWER
THE FIRST EXTRA
AT A DINNER PARTY
PHILOSOPHY
A GAME OF LAWN TENNIS
TO E




AMY LEVY
By Richard Garnett
AMY LEVY (1861–1889), poetess and novelist, second daughter of Mr. Lewis Levy, by his wife Isabelle [Levin], was born at Clapham on 10 Nov. 1861. Her parents were of the Je wish faith.
She was educated at Brighton, and afterwards at Newnham College, Cambridge. She early showed decided talent, especially for poetry, pieces afterwards thought worthy of preservation having been written in her thirt eenth year.
In 1881 a small pamphlet of verse from her pen, ‘Xantippe and other poems,’ was printed at Cambridge. Most of the contents were subsequently incorporated with her second publication, A Minor Poet and other Verse, (1884). ‘Xantippe’ is in many respects her most powerful production, exhibiting a passionate rhetoric and a keen, piercing dialectic, exceedingly remarkable in so young a writer. It is a defence of Socrates's maligned wife, from the woman's point of view, full of tragic pathos, and only short of complete success from its frequent reproduction of the manner of both the Brownings. The same may be said of ‘A Minor Poet,’ a poem now more interesting than when it was written, from its evident prefigurement of the melancholy fate of the authoress herself. The most important pieces in the volume are in blank verse, too colloquial to be finely modulated, but always terse and nervous. A London Plane Tree and other Poems , (1889), is, on the other hand, chiefly lyrical. Most of the pieces are individually beautiful; as a collection they weary with their monotony of sadness. The authoress responded more readily to painful than to pleasurable emotions, and this incapacity for pleasure was a more serious trouble than her sensitiveness to pain: it deprived her of the encouragement she might have received from the success which, after a fortunate essay with a minor work of fiction, The Romance of a Shop , attended her remarkable novel, Reuben Sachs , (1889). This is a most powerful work, alike in the condensed tragedy of the main action, the striking portraiture of the principal characters, and the keen satire of the less refined aspects of Jewish society.