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Loy, Mina
Loy, Mina (1882–1966), poet and artist, born Mina Gertrude Lowy in London of Jewish parents; attended art school in Munich and Paris; and exhibited her paintings in Paris. While living in Italy she began writing, both ‘manifestos’ and poetry. The publication of her ‘Love Songs’ (in Others, 1915, 1917) caused, as W. C. Williams remarked, ‘wild enthusiasm among free-verse writers…and really quite a stir in the country at large’. Loy's work was noticed for its ‘radical’ social views and its innovative forms. Her Lunar Baedeker, a landmark in Modernist poetry, was published in 1923, and her long modernist autobiographical poem, Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose, between 1923 and 1925.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Loy, Mina." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Loy, Mina." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 9, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-LoyMina.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Loy, Mina." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved February 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-LoyMina.html |
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Loy, Mina (Mina Gertrude Lowy)
Loy, Mina (Mina Gertrude Lowy) (1882–1966), English‐born poet whose contributions to little magazines of the 1920s are collected in Lunar Baedecker (1923). She was praised by T.S. Eliot, and called by Yvor Winters a master of free verse “so simplified, so denuded of secondary accent, as to be indistinguishable from prose.” Her cool poems of the first volume and some additions were issued as Lunar Baedeker & Time‐Tables (1958) and with further additions as The Last Lunar Baedeker (1982).
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Loy, Mina (Mina Gertrude Lowy)." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Loy, Mina (Mina Gertrude Lowy)." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (February 9, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-LoyMinaMinaGertrudeLowy.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Loy, Mina (Mina Gertrude Lowy)." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved February 09, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-LoyMinaMinaGertrudeLowy.html |
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