New and Selected Essays

✍ Scribed by Levertov, Denise

• Publisher: New Directions
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: New directions paperbook 749
• Edition: 4th. printing
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Denise Levertov fulfills the eternal mission of the true Poet: to be a receptacle of Divine Grace and a 'spendor of that Grace to humanity.'" —World Literature Today

Denise Levertov's New Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are variouspoetics, the imagination, politics, spirituality, other writersand 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 Selected Essays will prove enormously helpful to the writer and reader of poetry. As Kirkus Reviews remarked about her prose: "This is humanism in its true senseher attitude as evidenced...

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✦ Subjects

American poetry--History and criticism;Crítica literaria;Criticism;Poesía estadounidense--Historia y crítica;American poetry -- History and criticism;Poesía estadounidense -- Historia y crítica