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5 Poems by Denise LevertovThis forum post is dated 03/19/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. - Poems
| 5 Poems by Denise Levertov Denise Levertov 1923-1997 In her final interview, a couple of months before she died, Nicholas O'Connell discusses Denise Levertov's essay Some Affinities of Content, particularly concerning the Northwest Poets' attention to nature as a way to submerge their individual ego, and she is asked if her approach to poetry involves a spiritual quest. She says it is, and then she continues : ...optimism is a twentieth-century repeat of attitudes in the nineteenth century, when they thought that steam, electricity, and telephones were going to make for some kind of utopia. There's a lot of dependence on technology today, and a willful ignorance that it's messing up resources... [o]ur ethical development does not match our technological development. This sense of spiritual hunger is something of a counterforce or unconscious reaction to all that technological euphoria.(1) Denise Levertov was born October 23, 1923 in Ilford, Essex, England. Her father was a Hasidic Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Anglican parson. Her mother was Welsh and read Willa Cather, Dickens, Tolstoy and Conrad. Denise was Home schooled and became interested in writing early, although she studied and intended to pursue ballet. She later said WWII changed her plans. To avoid conscription (women as well as men were required to serve in England, ) She became a nurse during WWII. After publication n of her first book in 1946, she was recognized as one of the New Romantics. But after marrying American X;b>...X;/b> |
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