num_pages: 276
description: “Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a 'spendor of that Grace to humanity.'” ― World Literature Today Denise Levertov's New &amp; Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various––poetics, the imagination, politics, spirituality, other writers––and her approach independent minded and richly complex. Here in a single volume are recent essays exploring new ground broken by Levertov in the past decade as well as the finest and most useful prose pieces from The Poet in the World (1973) and Light Up the Cave (1981). This is a book to read and reread. With their combination of sensitivity and practicality, the New &amp; Selected Essays will prove enormously helpful to the writer and reader of poetry. As Kirkus Reviews remarked about her "This is humanism in its true sense––her attitude as evidenced (not described) by her writing is such that the reader cannot help but experience life, at least temporarily, with more intensity, joy, and imagination."
language: English
title: New and Selected Essays
titlecomplete: New and Selected Essays
genres: Essays, Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 60
publisher: New Directions