Imbolc Valentine Moon
material from the academy of american poets:
About this poem:
Virginia Woolf writes of Aphra Behn, in A Room of One’s Own, that: “She made, by working very hard, enough to live on. The importance of that fact outweighs anything that she actually wrote, even the splendid ‘A Thousand Martyrs I have made,’ or ‘Love in Fantastic Triumph sat,’ for here begins the freedom of the mind or rather the possibility that in the course of time the mind will be free to write what it likes.”
(Aphra_Behn_by_Mary_Beale)
Born on December 14, 1640, Aphra Behn was one of the first professional female writers and the author of Oroonoko and The Rover. She died on April 16, 1689.
A Thousand Martyrs I Have Made A thousand martyrs I have made, I never vow’d nor sigh’d in vain Alone the glory and the spoil |