| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 515 pages :) : illustrations, portraits |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Listening to distant guns (1923-1948). "The walls of the garden, the first light": beginnings (1923-1933); "When Anna screamed": Levertov's response to Nazi oppression (1933-1939); The double image: apprenticeship during World War Two (1939-1946); "Recoveries": abortion, adventure, and marriage (1947- 48) -- A common ground (1949-1966). "Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?1966) -- Life at war (1966-74). "Revolution or death": living in the movement (1966-1970); "The freeing of the dust": the revolution hits home (1970-1974) -- Sleepers awake (1975-1988). "A woman alone": beginning again (1975-1981); "Writing in the dark": social protest and liberation theology (1982-1988) -- Resettling (1989-1997). "Of shadow and flame": the re-cognition of identity (1989-1992); "Beauty growls in the fertile dark": facing death (1992-1997). |
| Summary |
This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and interviews with 75 friends of Levertov, as well as on Levertov's entire opus, Donna Krolik Hollenberg's authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both woman and artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited. She charts Levertov's early life in England as the daughter of a Russian Hasidic fath. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997.
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Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997. |
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Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997 -- Political and social views.
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Political and social views. |
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Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997. |
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American. |
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20th century |
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Jewish Christians -- Biography.
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Jewish Christians. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hollenberg, Donna. A Poet's Revolution : The Life of Denise Levertov. Berkerley : University of California Press, ©2013 9780520272460 |
| ISBN |
9780520954786 (electronic book) |
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0520954785 (electronic book) |
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0520272463 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520272460 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781299051591 (MyiLibrary) |
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1299051596 (MyiLibrary) |
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9780520272460 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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