The Oxford Companion to American Literature | Levertov, Denise
Levertov, Denise( 1923– ), born in England of a Welsh mother and a Russian-Jewish father who became an Anglican clergyman, was educated at home and came to the U.S. in 1948 after marriage to an American. Her earlier poems were published in The Double Image (1946), and since coming to this country she has issued Here and Now (1957), Five Poems (1958), Overland to the Islands (1958), With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1959), The Jacob's Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), The Sorrow Dance (1967), Relearning the Alphabet (1970), To Stay Alive (1971), Footprints (1972), The Freeing of the Dust (1975), Life in the Forest (1978), Pig Dreams (1981), Candles in Babylon (1982), Oblique Prayers (1984), Breathing the Water (1987), and A Door in the Hive (1989), whose free verse presents compact and intensely immediate...
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