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Denise Levertov (Priscilla Denise Levertoff) was born on 24 October, 1923 in Ilford, Essex, England, is an American poet (1923–1997). Discover Denise Levertov's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

Popular As Priscilla Denise Levertoff
Occupation Poet
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 24 October, 1923
Birthday 24 October
Birthplace Ilford, Essex, England
Date of death 20 December, 1997
Died Place Seattle, Washington, USA
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1923

Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet.

She was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.

Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex.

Her mother, Beatrice Adelaide (née Spooner-Jones) Levertoff, came from a small mining village in North Wales.

Her father, Paul Levertoff, had been a teacher at Leipzig University and as a Russian Hasidic Jew was held under house arrest during the First World War as an "enemy alien" by virtue of his ethnicity.

He emigrated to the UK and became an Anglican priest after converting to Christianity.

In the mistaken belief that he would want to preach in a Jewish neighbourhood, he was housed in Ilford, within reach of a parish in Shoreditch, in East London.

His daughter wrote: "My father's Hasidic ancestry, his being steeped in Jewish and Christian scholarship and mysticism, his fervour and eloquence as a preacher, were factors built into my cells."

Levertov, who was educated at home, showed an enthusiasm for writing from an early age and studied ballet, art, piano and French as well as standard subjects.

She wrote about the strangeness she felt growing up part Jewish, German, Welsh and English, but not fully belonging to any of these identities.

She notes that it lent her a sense of being special rather than excluded: "[I knew] before I was ten that I was an artist-person and I had a destiny."

1933

She noted: "Humanitarian politics came early into my life: seeing my father on a soapbox protesting Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia; my father and sister both on soap-boxes protesting Britain's lack of support for Spain; my mother canvasing long before those events for the League of Nations Union; and all three of them working on behalf of the German and Austrian refugees from 1933 onwards… I used to sell the Daily Worker house-to-house in the working class streets of Ilford Lane".

When Levertov was five years old she declared she would be a writer.

At the age of 12, she sent some of her poems to T. S. Eliot, who replied with a two-page letter of encouragement.

1940

In 1940, when she was 17, Levertov published her first poem.

During the Blitz, Levertov served in London as a civilian nurse.

Her first book, The Double Image, was published six years later.

1947

In 1947, she met and married American writer Mitchell Goodman and moved with him to the United States the following year.

1955

In 1955, she became a naturalised American citizen.

Levertov's first two books had comprised poems written in traditional forms and language.

But as she accepted the US as her new home and became more and more fascinated with the American idiom, she began to come under the influence of the Black Mountain poets and most importantly William Carlos Williams.

Her first American book of poetry, Here and Now, shows the beginnings of this transition and transformation.

Her poem "With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads" established her reputation.

1960

During the 1960s and 70s, Levertov became much more politically active in her life and work.

As poetry editor for The Nation, she was able to support and publish the work of feminist and other leftist activist poets.

The Vietnam War was an especially important focus of her poetry, which often tried to weave together the personal and political, as in her poem "The Sorrow Dance", which speaks of her sister's death.

1968

Also in response to the Vietnam War, Levertov joined the War Resisters League, and in 1968 signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the war.

Levertov was a founding member of the anti-war collective RESIST along with Noam Chomsky, Mitchell Goodman, William Sloane Coffin, and Dwight Macdonald.

Much of the latter part of Levertov's life was spent in education.

After moving to Massachusetts, Levertov taught at Brandeis University, MIT, Tufts University, and the University of Massachusetts Boston.

She also lived part-time in Palo Alto and taught at Stanford University, as professor of English (professor emeritus).

There she befriended Robert McAfee Brown, a professor of religion at Stanford and pastor.

Franciscan Murray Bodo also became a spiritual advisor to her.

1975

Although Levertov and Goodman would eventually divorce in 1975, they did have one son, Nikolai, together and lived mainly in New York City, summering in Maine.

1982

On the West Coast, she had a part-time teaching stint at the University of Washington and for 11 years (1982–1993) held a full professorship at Stanford University, where she taught in the Stegner Fellowship program.

1984

In 1984 she uncovered notebooks of her mother and father, resolving some personal and religious conflict.

In 1984 she received a Litt.

D. from Bates College.

After retiring from teaching, she travelled for a year doing poetry readings in the US and Britain.

1989

In 1989 she moved from Somerville, Massachusetts to Seattle, Washington, and lived near Seward Park on Lake Washington, with a view of her beloved Mount Rainier.