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Amy Levy [1861-1889] ENG
Ranked #214 in the top 380 poets
Votes 62%: 38 up, 23 down

Feminist, lesbian.

Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861. She was the 2nd of 7 children into a somewhat wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children of the family read and participated in secular literary activities and the family frequently took part in home theatricals -- they firmly integrated into Victorian life. The children of the household would "publish" literary magazines with Levy contributing poetry and plays. At the age of 15 Levy was sent to Brighton to study at Brighton High School and she lived in her own apartment and her family would come down to visit. In 1880 her first book of poetry Xantrippe and other verses was published. Her friends were young literary men and w

Symbolism, Feminism



WorkLangRating
Epitaph (On a Commonplace Person Who Died in Bed)
eng
9
A Game of Lawn Tennis
eng
5
The Sick Man and the Nightingale
eng
5
A Farewell
eng
4
To Lallie (Outside the British Museum)
eng
3
A Cross-Road Epitaph
eng
2
A Ballad Of Religion And Marriage
eng
1
A London Plane-Tree
eng
1
At a Dinner Party
eng
1
In the Black Forest
eng
1
New Love, New Life
eng
1
Sonnet
eng
1
To a Dead Poet
eng
1
To Death
eng
1
Xantippe(A Fragment)
eng
1
A Dirge
eng
0
A Greek Girl
eng
0
A June-Tide Echo
eng
0
A March Day in London
eng
0
A Minor Poet
eng
0
A Prayer
eng
0
A Reminiscence
eng
0
A Wall Flower
eng
0
Alma Mater
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0
At Dawn
eng
0
Ballade of a Special Edition
eng
0
Ballade of an Omnibus
eng
0
Between the Showers
eng
0
Borderland
eng
0
Cambridge in the Long
eng
0
Captivity
eng
0
Christopher Found
eng
0
Contradictions
eng
0
Felo de Se
eng
0
Impotens
eng
0
In a Minor Key
eng
0
In September
eng
0
In the Mile End Road
eng
0
In the Night
eng
0
In the Nower
eng
0
June
eng
0
Last Words
eng
0
Lohengrin
eng
0
London in July
eng
0
London Poets
eng
0
Magdalen
eng
0
Oh, Is It Love?
eng
0
On the Threshold
eng
0
On the Wye in May
eng
0
Out of Town
eng
0
Philosophy
eng
0
Ralph to Mary
eng
0
Run to Death
eng
0
Sinfonia Eroica
eng
0
Straw in the Street
eng
0
The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz
eng
0
The Dream
eng
0
The End of the Day
eng
0
The First Extra
eng
0
The Last Judgment
eng
0
The Lost Friend
eng
0
The Old House
eng
0
The Old Poet
eng
0
The Piano-Organ
eng
0
The Promise of Sleep
eng
0
The Sequel to a Reminiscence
eng
0
The Two Terrors
eng
0
The Village Garden
eng
0
To Clementina Black
eng
0
To E.
eng
0
To Lallie (Outside the British Museum.)
eng
0
To Sylvia
eng
0
To Vernon Lee
eng
0
Translated from Geibel
eng
0
Twilight
eng
0
Youth and Love
eng
0

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