Denise Levertov Flashcards
L’année de naissance ?
1923
Her experience as a teacher retraced in an essay entitled?
The untaught teacher
Denise levertov never went to school although later …
She would be invited to teach at various universities in New York City
She is an author of more than…
30 collections of poetry and six collections of essays and letters
She began her career in US as …
A modernist poet
She was influenced by …
Aesthetic beliefs of the modernist poets
What happened during the World War II?
She met her husband, Mitchell Goodman and America novelist and poet
Levertov and her husband became involved in…
The Vietnam draft resistance movement
In the mid 1960.. ?
She took a new direction in her poetry -
Political poetry
Her position expounded in?
On the edge of darkness - what is political poetry. (1975)
Levertov’s poetry published during Vietnam war can be considered as?
Politically engaged and didactic
“What were they like” and “life at war” from the collection ?
“The Sorrow Dance “ — 1967
