Poverty: Ode – by Amable Tastu

Amable Tastu (1795-1885) was one of the most influential female poets of French Romanticism. Her father was a professional heraldic painter, so his entire craft and industry, which depended on the aristocracy, was wiped out with the french Revolution. Tastu was therefore been quite familiar in childhood with the luxury of the ruling classes, even while living much of her own life in poverty. Much of her work promoted the struggle for Greek independence and other Liberal causes of the time. Around 1848 she co-founded the Society for the Mutual Education of Women, which gave free literacy courses to working-class women throughout Paris and promoted gender-equal, democratic socialism.

Translated by Olchar E. Lindsann.
Cover image by Charles Philipon

3 pgs on folded letter. April A.Da. 110 (2026 Anti-Vulgar)
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