Talk:Denise Levertov

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I think the article should discuss the nature and style of her poetry. Also, biographically, her movement toward and eventual conversion to Christianity should be treated, especially as it affected her poetry.

-Ethan

What Were They Like - date?
Could someone please put at date on "What Were They Like"? - thanks Aferwe45 18:37, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Only Once
All which, because it was

flame and song and granted us

joy, we thought we'd do, be, revisits

turns out to have been what it was

that 'once' only; every initiation

did not begin

a series, a build-up: the marvelous

did happen in our lives, our stories

are not drab with it's absence: but don't

expect now to return for more. Whatever more

there will be will be

unique as those were unique. Try

to acknowledge the next

song in its body-halo of flame as utterly

present, as now or never.

"Only Once"

by Denise Levertov

Note: poem was part of Rhonda Miles "Somewhere Between" entry at the Del Mar Fair / Fine Arts / 2nd place | 6/30/2011 HollySQ (talk) 07:58, 3 July 2011 (UTC)User talk:HollySQ — Preceding unsigned comment added by HollySQ (talk • contribs) 07:31, 3 July 2011 (UTC) User talk:HollySQ


 * Did you have a question or a comment about this? Span (talk) 12:16, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Misleading Bibliography
The Denise Levertov bibliography under the "Collections" heading is misleading: some items in the list are individual poems, or groups of poems on a specific topic, which may have been published by themselves, or serially, in periodicals, but are not "Collections". These are not "Collections":

The Sharks (1952);

Life At War (1968);

At the Justice Department, November 15, 1969;

What Were They Like? (1971);

Wedding-Ring (1978);

The May Mornings (1982);

Living (1986).

The heading "Collections" is also itself misleading: the volumes published during her lifetime, which she assembled, should have the heading Primary Works. Some of the items in the list are in fact "Collections" -- some of her poems, edited together, usually by theme, by parties other than Levertov. Those should properly be listed as separate category Collections, and noted as to editors. In that category would be, as example, Selected Poems. (The edition listed was published by Bloodaxe in Britain in, apparently, 1986; there is a later "Selected Poems," published by New Directions, Edited by Paul Lacey. The complete citation of the latter example would include, at the least, "Edited by Paul Lacey, with a Preface by Robert Creeley", and linked to the "Robert Creeley" page.)

In addition, Levertov edited more volumes of poems written by others than indicated, and or wrote "Introductions" for such. Those would be listed under Collections -- or perhaps separate category Editor -- identifying author and or editor, and the standard "with Introduction by . . . ." etc., when that applies.

Last but not least, Levertov also translated poems by others (Octavio Paz and Alain Bousquet as examples), in some instances her translations being in collections with translations by others. As a translation is considered a creation of the translater, those should be listed under separate category Translations, with original author's name, and the standard "with Introduction by . . . ." etc., when that applies.

-JNagarya

Opening Bio lines: by virtue of ethnicity?
there is something wrong in the story of her father. During WW1, just as during WW2, Russia sided with Britain, so having Russian heritage hardly got you arrested, unlike being a German national. If "ethnicity" is the term seriously meant, then it means that Brits arrested Jews thinking on the Government level that the latter were their actual enemy in WW1, which is something that would require serious sources. Tar-ba-gan (talk) 22:43, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

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