$Levertov, Denise1923╨poetBorn on October 24, 1923, in Ilford, Essex, England, Denise Levertov was the daughter of an immigrant Russian Jew who had become an Anglican clergyman. She was educated at home. During World War II she served as a civilian nurse in London. She published her first book of poems, The Double Image, in 1946. In 1948 she settled in New York City with her American husband; she became a naturalized citizen in 1955. During the first years of her residence in America her poetry developed rapidly, in part under the influence of that of William Carlos Williams, and with the appearance of her second book, Here and Now, 1957, her early neoromanticism had been entirely displaced by her mature style of intense concentration on the particulars of common experience, conveyed in spare, unclouded language. Subsequent books included Overland to the Islands, 1958, With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads, 1960, The Jacob╒s Ladder, 1962, 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, 1979, Life in the Forest, 1979, Light Up the Cave, 1981, Candles in Babylon, 1982, Breathing the Water, 1987, A Door in the Hive, 1989, and Evening Train, 1992. She also translated In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali, with Edward Dimock, Jr., 1967, edited Out of the War Shadow, a collection of antiwar and anti-draft writings, 1967, and published a volume of essays, criticism, and other writings, The Poet in the World, 1973. When she became active in the anti-war movement of the 1960's, her poems became more political as well. Although this was not well received by some critics, she continued to write political poetry saying, ╥poetry is necessary to a whole man, and that poetry be not divided from the rest of life is necessary to it. Both life and poetry fade, wilt, shrink, when they are divorced.╙ She was a frequent visiting lecturer, professor, or artist at colleges and universities, including Drew University in 1965, Vassar College in 1966╨1967, the University of California at Berkeley in 1969, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969╨1970, Kirkland College in 1970╨1971, the University of Cincinnati in 1973, and Tufts University in 1973╨1974. From 1975 to 1979 she joined the regular Tufts faculty as professor of English. She was a poet in residence at Brandeis University from 1981 to 1983, and in 1981 she became a professor at Stanford University. She was the recipient of numerous prizes and honors for her poetry. ÷styl ` 2 ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ !I 7 !I G !I { !I ç !I C 5¬ D !I ^ !I u !I } !I ƒ !I º !I ╣ !I ┴ !I ╨ !I ╪ !I Φ !I ≡ !I !I !I !I $ !I . !I 6 !I M !I U !I g !I o !I ü !I ë !I Ü !I ó !I ┤ !I ╝ !I ╧ !I ╫ !I Θ !I ⌡ !I !I !I K !I s !I ê !I !I !I 5¬ ! !I link `
