Mina Loy

Mina Loy was born Mina Gertrude Lowy on December 27th, 1882, in London. She was the first of three daughters born to her Hungarian-born Jewish tailor father, Felix Lowy, and her mother Julia Bryan. She began

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by Mina Loy (1882–1966)

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 Curie 
 of the laboratory 
 of vocabulary 
 she crushed 
 the tonnage 
 of consciousness 
 congealed to phrases 
  to extract 
 a radium of the word.

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Question:

What magazine drew the ire of a young Lord Byron, provoking him to write the poem which would make him famous?

Answer

The Edinburgh Review . A sharp review of Byron's first book Hours of Idleness provoked the poet to write the satirical "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers."

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