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The Autobiography of Mina Loy: "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose" and "Colossus"
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Mina Loy
Mina Loy's long narrative poem Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose (1923-25) has been compared by eminent critics to Eliot's The Waste Land, Williams' Paterson, and Crane's The Bridge -- it is a major work of modernism, obscured for too long by Loy's gender and by her unconventional approach to a literary career, but now finally on the verge of recognition by a general audience. L
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224 pages
Published
March 1st 1999
by Exact Change
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Loy was born Mina Gertrude Lowy in London, England. On leaving school, she studied painting, first in Munich for two years and then in London, where one of her teachers was Augustus John. She moved to Paris, France with Stephen Haweis who studied with her at the Académie Colarossi. The couple married in 1903. She first used the name Loy in 1904, when she exhibited six watercolor paintings at the S
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