Selected Essays of Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a ‘spendor of that Grace to humanity.’

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Selected Essays of Denise Levertov

Literature by Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov’s New & Selected Essays gathers three decades’ worth of the poet’s most important critical statements. Her subjects are various-––poetics, the imagination, politics, spirituality, other writers––and her approach independent minded and richly complex. Here in a single volume are recent essays exploring new ground broken by Levertov in the past decade as well as the finest and most useful prose pieces from The Poet in the World (1973) and Light Up the Cave (1981). This is a book to read and reread. With their combination of sensitivity and practicality, the New & Selected Essays will prove enormously helpful to the writer and reader of poetry. As Kirkus Reviews remarked about her prose: “This is humanism in its true sense––her attitude as evidenced (not described) by her writing is such that the reader cannot help but experience life, at least temporarily, with more intensity, joy, and imagination.”

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Portrait of Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov

Poet and political activist

Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a ‘spendor of that Grace to humanity.’

World Literature Today