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Sublunary Editions, paperback

Publication Date: January 26, 2023

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Im not resignd, not patient, not schoold in
To take my starvelings portion and pretend
Im grateful for it. I want all, all, all;
Ive appetite for all. I want the best:
Love, beauty, sunlight, nameless joy of life.

From “A Minor Poet”

Upon her death at the age of 27, the British poet Amy Levy (November 10, 1861September 10, 1889) was eulogized in the pages of The Womans World by its editor, Oscar Wilde, who said that her work was not poured out lightly, but drawn drop by drop from the very depth of her own feeling. In addition to her poetry, collected in its entirety here for the first time, Levy wrote three novelsReuben Sachs, The Romance of a Shop, and Miss Meredithas well as short stories and essays. On the whole Levys writings reflect her engagement with a broad range of subjects and themes, including contemporary urban life, classical literature, historical incidents, feminism, and Jewish culture. She was the first woman to enroll at Newnham College, Cambridge.