Denise Levertov Flashcards

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L’année de naissance ?

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1923

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Her experience as a teacher retraced in an essay entitled?

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The untaught teacher

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Denise levertov never went to school although later …

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She would be invited to teach at various universities in New York City

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She is an author of more than…

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30 collections of poetry and six collections of essays and letters

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She began her career in US as …

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A modernist poet

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She was influenced by …

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Aesthetic beliefs of the modernist poets

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What happened during the World War II?

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She met her husband, Mitchell Goodman and America novelist and poet

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Levertov and her husband became involved in…

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The Vietnam draft resistance movement

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In the mid 1960.. ?

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She took a new direction in her poetry -
Political poetry

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10
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Her position expounded in?

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On the edge of darkness - what is political poetry. (1975)

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Levertov’s poetry published during Vietnam war can be considered as?

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Politically engaged and didactic

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“What were they like” and “life at war” from the collection ?

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“The Sorrow Dance “ — 1967

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