Denise levertov biography
Denise levertov!
Denise levertov biography
Levertov, Denise (1923–1997)
Major English-born poet, essayist, teacher and translator known for her attention to craft, sense of aesthetic ethics, weaving of a woman's private and public spheres of experience, and political activism. Pronunciation: Lev-er-TOFF.
Born on October 24, 1923, in Ilford, Essex, a suburb outside London; died from complications of lymphoma in Seattle, Washington, on December 20, 1997; daughter of Phillip Paul Levertoff (an Anglican cleric) and Beatrice Adelaide (Spooner-Jones) Levertoff; educated at home, along with her sister Olga, by her mother, and by a library of her father's books; studied ballet formally; married Mitchell Goodman (an American novelist), on December 2, 1947 (divorced 1972); children: son, Nikolai (b.
1949).
Selected awards:
Besshokin Prize from Poetry (1959), for poem "With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads"; Longview Award (1961); Guggenheim fellowship (1962); Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize (1964); American Academy and Institute