num_pages: 344
description: Illuminating reflections on the achievements of poet Denise LevertovThis volume provides the most extensive and balanced interpretation to date of Denise Levertov's work. Denise Levertov has been at the center of the American poetic scene since she came from England in the 1940s and remade herself as a poet in response to the ferment of American poetry in the postwar period. The book reviews, essays, and discussions collected here offer different views, perspectives, and judgments, but all confirm Levertov's recognition as one of the most important and influential, most respected and readable poets of the second half of the century.The first section assembles selected reviews chronologically from Kenneth Rexroth's enthusiastic response to her first American collection, which brought her early attention, to a wide-ranging review by Donald Revell of her most recent book. Among the other distinguished reviewers are Marie Boroff, Hayden Carruth, Thom Gunn, Gilbert Sorrentino, Linda Wagner, and James Wright.
language: English
title: Denise Levertov: Selected Criticism
titlecomplete: Denise Levertov: Selected Criticism (Under Discussion)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: University of Michigan Press