The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy 1861-1889

1104 Pages·1993·2.34 MB·English

by  Amy Levy

The Complete Novels and Selected Writings
title:
of Amy Levy, 1861-1889
author: Levy, Amy.; New, Melvyn.
publisher: University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin: 081301199X
print isbn13: 9780813011998
ebook isbn13: 9780585200316
language: English
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publication date: 1993
lcc: PR4886.L25A6 1993eb
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The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of
Amy Levy 18611889
edited by Melvyn New
University Press of Florida
Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton
Pensacola Orlando Miami Jacksonville
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Copyright 1993 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida.
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Levy, Amy, 18611889.
[Selections. 1993]
Selected writings of Amy Levy, 18611889 / edited by
Melvyn New.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8130-1199-X (hard). ISBN 0-8130-1200-7 (pbk.)
I. New, Melvyn. II. Title.
PR4886.L25A6 1993
828'.809dc20 92-41443
Frontispiece. This portrait of Amy Levy first appeared with Oscar
Wilde's tribute to her in Woman's World 3 (1890): 51, with the legend
"From a Photograph by Montabone, Florence."
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Notes to the Introduction 41
Two Poetic Tributes to Amy Levy 53
A Note on the Text 56
Novels
The Romance of a Shop (1888) 59
Reuben Sachs: A Sketch (1888) 197
Miss Meredith (1889) 294
Poetry
From Xantippe and Other Verse (1881)
Xantippe 357
A Prayer 365
Felo De Se 366
Sonnet ("Most wonderful and strange") 367
Run to Death 367
From A Minor Poet and Other Verse (1884)
To a Dead Poet 370
A Minor Poet 370
Sinfonia Eroica 377
Magdalen 378
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The Sick Man and the Nightingale 381
To Death 381
To Lallie 381
A Farewell 383
Epitaph 384
From A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse (1889)
"London Plane-Tree"
A London Plane-Tree 385
London in July 386
Ballade of an Omnibus 386
Ballade of a Special Edition 387
Out of Town 388
The Piano-Organ 388
London Poets 389
"Love, Dreams, and Death"
On the Threshold 390
The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz 390
Borderland 391
At Dawn 391
A Reminiscence 391
The Sequel to "A Reminiscence" 392
In the Mile End Road 393
In September 393
"Moods and Thoughts"
The Old House 393
Lohengrin 394
Alma Mater 394
In the Black Forest 395
The Last Judgment 396
Cambridge in the Long 397
To Vernon Lee 398
Oh, is it Love? 398
In the Nower 399
"Odds and Ends"
A Wall Flower 399
The First Extra 400
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At a Dinner Party 400
Philosophy 401
A Game of Lawn Tennis 402
To E. 402
Miscellaneous Poetry
A Ballad of Religion and Marriage (n.d.) 404
Two Translations of Jehudah Halevi (1888) 405
Short Fiction
Between Two Stools (1883) 409
Sokratics in the Strand (1884) 424
The Recent Telepathic Occurrence at the British Museum 431
(1888)
Griselda (1888) 435
A Slip of the Pen (1889) 471
Cohen of Trinity (1889) 478
Wise in her Generation (1890) 486
Essays
James Thomson: A Minor Poet (1883) 501
The New School of American Fiction (1884) 510
The Ghetto at Florence (1886) 518
Jewish Humour (1886) 521