Levertov, Denise 1923-1997

Overview

Works:	804 works in 1,418 publications in 3 languages and 43,879 library holdings
Roles:	Translator, Compiler, Signer, Performer, Editor, Lyricist, Author of introduction, Interviewee, Other, Author in quotations or text abstracts
Classifications:	PS3562.E8876, 811.54

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Publications about Denise Levertov

Publications by Denise Levertov

Publications by Denise Levertov, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Denise Levertov

American poetry since 1945: a critical survey by Stephen Stepanchev ( Book )
Denise Levertov by Linda Wagner-Martin ( Book )
Contemporary poets ( Book )
Breathing the water by Denise Levertov ( Book )
Denise Levertov : a poet's life by Dana Greene ( Book )

Poems 1968-1972 by Denise Levertov ( Book )
The inner war; forms and themes in recent American poetry by Paul A Lacey ( Book )
Tesserae : memories & suppositions by Denise Levertov ( Book )
Denise Levertov : selected criticism ( Book )
Understanding Denise Levertov by Harry Marten ( Book )
Naked and fiery forms : modern American poetry by women : a new tradition by Suzanne Juhasz ( Book )
Denise Levertov : the poetry of engagement by Audrey T Rodgers ( Book )
The letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov by Robert Duncan ( Book )
The letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams by Denise Levertov ( Book )
Critical essays on Denise Levertov ( Book )
Poetics of the feminine : authority and literary tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser by Linda A Kinnahan ( Book )
Conversations with Denise Levertov by Denise Levertov ( Book )
Denise Levertov : new perspectives ( Book )
A poet's revolution : the life of Denise Levertov by Donna Krolik Hollenberg ( Book )
Three native songs My heart is different ; Reminiscence 2 ; Songs from the Levertov scores ; Music for strings ; Two songs on a poem of Su Tung P'o by Wes York ( Recording )

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Most widely held works by Denise Levertov

The Jacob's ladder by Denise Levertov ( Book )
26 editions published between 1961 and 1998 in English and held by 1,221 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sorrow dance; [poems by Denise Levertov ( Book )
24 editions published between 1963 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,208 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Footprints by Denise Levertov ( Book )
11 editions published between 1971 and 1984 in English and held by 1,162 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selected poems by Denise Levertov ( Book )
16 editions published between 1969 and 2003 in English and Chinese and held by 1,162 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents a selection of poems by twentieth-century poet Denise Levertov, composed over the course of six decades

The freeing of the dust by Denise Levertov ( Book )
8 editions published in 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Collected earlier poems, 1940-1960 by Denise Levertov ( Book )
10 editions published between 1979 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,095 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Now available. Here are the early poems which first brought Denise Levertov's work to prominence -- from early uncollected poems, selections from The Double Image (London, 1946), and her three books Here and Now (1957), Overland to the Islands (1958) and With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1960), which established her as one of the more lyrical and most influential poets of the "New American" poetry

O taste and see : new poems by Denise Levertov ( Book )
20 editions published between 1964 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,095 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The poet in the world by Denise Levertov ( Book )
12 editions published in 1973 in English and held by 1,065 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Relearning the alphabet by Denise Levertov ( Book )
16 editions published between 1970 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,029 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

With eyes at the back of our heads by Denise Levertov ( Book )
20 editions published between 1958 and 1998 in 3 languages and held by 1,013 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Evening train by Denise Levertov ( Book )
12 editions published between 1992 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 974 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Evening Train, Denise Levertov's new collection of poetry, is her twenty-first book with New Directions and one of her best. It shows Levertov at her most moving and musical, impressive and meditative, addressing the nature of faith, the imperiled beauty of the natural world (her new home in the Northwest brings mountains, herons, eagles), the horrors of the Gulf War, the pain and tenderness of love. What is remarkable throughout is the precision of her craft and her presence of mind: "Levertov's gift for detail," as the Village Voice noted, "is matched by the way she can make yearnings and ideas seem almost physical, as if she held them in the palm of her hand." Welling up through these poems is longing: longing for peace, for the survival of her cherished earth, for love, for the experience of the divine which comes like "a strain of music heard/then lost, then heard again." Contemplative, personal, universal, the poems reveal in themselves depth after depth

To stay alive by Denise Levertov ( Book )
9 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 962 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems, 1960-1967 by Denise Levertov ( Book )
16 editions published between 1966 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 871 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The poet's concern for quotidian realities and eternal verities gives these poems substance meant to last, expressed in a style that is clear, concise, and intense ... lyrical but spare, the lines speak of many things--marriage, rivers, the world that is not enough with us--and the faint sounds of biblical and other literary allusions show asensibility that has assimilated the great tradition withthe urgencies of today

Sands of the well by Denise Levertov ( Book )
15 editions published between 1996 and 1998 in English and held by 829 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Primary Wonder, she writes: "And then / once more the quiet mystery / is present to me, the throng's clamor / recedes: the mystery / that there is anything, anything at all, / let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, / rather than void: and that O Lord, / Creator, Hallowed One, You still, / hour by hour sustain it."

Life in the forest by Denise Levertov ( Book )
7 editions published in 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 824 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A door in the hive by Denise Levertov ( Book )
12 editions published between 1989 and 1998 in English and held by 803 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Candles in Babylon by Denise Levertov ( Book )
7 editions published in 1982 in English and Undetermined and held by 759 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In praise of Krishna; songs from the Bengali by Edward C Dimock ( Book )
17 editions published between 1967 and 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 753 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Light up the cave by Denise Levertov ( Book )
7 editions published in 1981 in English and held by 720 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This great unknowing : last poems by Denise Levertov ( Book )
9 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in English and held by 686 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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