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Born in October 24, 1923 / Died in December 20, 1997 / United States / English

Furtherreading

Other info : Career | Bibliography

BOOKS

  • Breslin, James E. B., From Modern to Contemporary: American Poetry, 1945-1965, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1984, pp. 143-155.
  • Brooker, Jewel Spears, Conversations with Denise Levertov, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 1998.
  • Capps, Donald, The Poet's Gift: Toward the Renewal of Pastoral Care, Westminister/John Knox (Louisville, KY), 1993.
  • Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography Supplement: Modern Writers, 1900-1998, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1998.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 66, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1991.
  • Contemporary Poets, sixth edition, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, 1980, Volume 165: American Poets since World War II, Fourth Series.
  • Feminist Writers, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • Gelpi, Albert, editor, Denise Levertov: Selected Criticism, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1993.
  • Gould, Jean, Modern American Women Poets, Dodd (New York, NY), 1985.
  • Hungerford, Edward, editor, Poets in Progress, second edition, Northwestern University Press (Evanston, IL), 1967.
  • Kinnahan, Linda A., Poetics of the Feminine: Authority and Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1994.
  • Levertov, Denise, Tesserae: Memories and Suppositions, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Marten, Harry, Understanding Denise Levertov, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1988.
  • Mersmann, James, Out of the Vietnam Vortex: A Study of Poets and Poetry against the War, University Press of Kansas (Lawrence, KS), 1974.
  • Middleton, Peter, Revelation and Revolution in the Poetry of Denise Levertov, Binnacle Press (London, England), 1981.
  • Rexroth, Kenneth, Assays, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1961.
  • Rexroth, Kenneth, With Eye and Ear, Herder & Herder (Lanham, MD), 1970.
  • Rodgers, Audrey T., Denise Levertov: The Poetry of Engagement, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Rutherford, NJ), 1993.
  • Sakelliou-Schultz, Liana, Denise Levertov: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography, Garland Publishing (New York, NY), 1988.
  • Slaughter, William, The Imagination's Tongue: Denise Levertov's Poetic, Aquila, 1981.
  • Wagner, Linda W., Denise Levertov, Twayne (New Haven, CT), 1967.
  • Wagner, Linda W., editor, Denise Levertov: In Her Own Province, New Directions Press (New York, NY), 1979.
  • Wagner-Martin, Linda W., editor, Critical Essays on Denise Levertov, G. K. Hall (Boston, MA), 1990.
  • Wilson, Robert A., A Bibliography of Denise Levertov, Phoenix Book Shop (New York, NY), 1972.

PERIODICALS

  • America, November 13, 1993, p. 19; May 30, 1998, Judith Dunbar, "Denise Levertov: 'The Sense of Pilgrimage,'" p. 22.
  • American Book Review, January-February, 1983; October, 1993, p. 7.
  • Booklist, October 15, 1992, p. 394; April 15, 1995, p. 1468.
  • Christian Science Monitor, June 3, 1993, p. 16.
  • Contemporary Literature, winter, 1973.
  • Hudson Review, summer, 1990, pp. 328-329; summer, 1993, pp. 415-424.
  • Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 2001, review of Poems: 1972-1982, p. 302.
  • Library Journal, September 1, 1981; April 15, 1995, p. 80; May 1, 1996, p. 97.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 6, 1982; July 18, 1982; December 27, 1992, p. 5; April 30, 1995, p. 6.
  • Michigan Quarterly Review, fall, 1985.
  • Midwest Quarterly, spring, 1975.
  • Nation, August 14, 1976.
  • National Catholic Reporter, May 22, 1998, Patty McCarty, review of Sands of the Well, p. 36.
  • National Review, March 21, 1980.
  • New Republic, January 26, 1974.
  • New York Times Book Review, January 7, 1973; November 30, 1975.
  • Poetry, June, 2000, Paul Breslin, "Black Mountain Reunion," p. 159.
  • Publishers Weekly, March 13, 1995, p. 55; February 26, 1996, p. 101; October 19, 1998, review of The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams, p. 66; March 29, 1999, review of This Great Unknowing: Last Poems, p. 98.
  • Sojourners, November, 1999, review of This Great Unknowing: Last Poems, p. 56.
  • Village Voice, September 29, 1987.
  • Washington Post, July 11, 1999, review of This Great Unknowing: Last Poems.
  • Women's Review of Books, February, 1988, pp. 7-8.
  • World Literature Today, winter, 1981; spring, 1983; summer, 1985; autumn, 1990, p. 640-641; autumn, 1993, p. 832; winter, 1994, pp. 132-133.

OBITUARIES

  • Chicago Tribune, December 23, 1997, section 1, p. 10.
  • Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1997, p. A26.
  • New York Times, December 23, 1997, p. B8.
  • Time, January 12, 1998, p. 31.
  • Washington Post, December 23, 1997, p. B7; January 6, 1998, p. A12.