Audiolibro Poetry of Amy Levy, The

Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life.

Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms.

Amy's writing career began early; her poem 'Ida Grey' appeared when she was only fourteen. Her acclaimed short stories 'Cohen of Trinity' and 'Wise in Their Generation,' were published by Oscar Wilde in his magazine 'Women's World'.

Her poetic writings reveal feminist concerns; 'Xantippe and Other Verses', from 1881 includes a poem in the voice of Socrates's wife. 'A Minor Poet and Other Verse' from 1884 comprises of dramatic monologues and lyric poems.

In 1886, Amy began a series of essays on Jewish culture and literature for the Jewish Chronicle, including 'The Ghetto at Florence', 'The Jew in Fiction', 'Jewish Humour' and 'Jewish Children'.

That same year while travelling in Florence she met the writer Vernon Lee. It is generally assumed they fell in love and this inspired the poem 'To Vernon Lee'.

Her first novel 'Romance of a Shop', written in 1888 is based on four sisters who experience the pleasures and hardships of running a London business during the 1880s. This was followed by Reuben Sachs (also 1888) and concerned with Jewish identity and mores in the England of her time and was somewhat controversial.

Her final book of poems, 'A London Plane-Tree' from 1889, shows the beginnings of the influence of French symbolism.

Despite many friendships and an active life, Amy suffered for many years with serious depressions and this, together with her growing deafness, led her to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide on September 10th, 1889. She was 27.

01 - The Poetry of Amy Levy - An Introduction

02 - Xantippe (A Fragment) by Amy Levy

03 - At Dawn by Amy Levy

04 - In the Night by Amy Levy

05 - Sonnet by Amy Levy

06 - A March Day in London by Amy Levy

07 - The First Extra - A Waltz Song by Amy Levy

08 - A Game of Lawn Tennis by Amy Levy

09 - On the Wye in May by Amy Levy

10 - A June Tide Echo by Amy Levy

11 - A London Plane Tree by Amy Levy

12 - London In July by Amy Levy

13 - In the Black Forest by Amy Levy

14 - On the Threhold by Amy Levy

15 - The Dream by Amy Levy

16 - In September by Amy Levy

17 - A Dirge by Amy Levy

18 - In a Minor Key (An Echo From a Larger Lyre) by Amy Levy

19 - The Old House by Amy Levy

20 - Out of Town by Amy Levy

21 - In the Mile End Road by Amy Levy

22 - Ballade of a Special Edition by Amy Levy

23 - Ballade of An Omnibus by Amy Levy

24 - A Reminisence by Amy Levy

25 - To Lallie (Outside the British Museum) by Amy Levy

26 - Oh, Is it Love by Amy Levy

27 - Philosophy by Amy Levy

28 - Contradictions by Amy Levy

29 - To Sylvia by Amy Levy

30 - A Prayer by Amy Levy

31 - The Lost Friend by Amy Levy

32 - To A Dead Poet by Amy Levy

33 - London Poets by Amy Levy

34 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy

35 - The Sick Man and the Nightingale by Amy Levy

36 - Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed) by Amy Levy

37 - Run to Death by Amy Levy

38 - A Cross Road Epitaph by Amy Levy

39 - Twilight by Amy Levy

40 - The Two Terrors by Amy Levy

41 - Last Words by Amy Levy

42 - The Promise of Sleep by Amy Levy

43 - A Farewell by Amy Levy

44 - A Minor Poet by Amy Levy

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