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William Carlos Williams 20 Th Century
1,020 wordsWilliams, William Carlos (1883 - 1963), American writer, whose use of simple, direct language marked a new course in 20 th-century poetry. Unlike some other writers of his time, such as T. S. Eliot, Williams avoided complexity and obscure symbolism. Instead, he produced lyrics, such as this one from "January Morning" (1938), that contain few difficult references: "All this-/ was for you, old woman. / I wanted to write a poem/ that you would understand. " Williams's greatest achievement as a writ...
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World War Ii Denise Levertov
537 wordsJoan F. Hallisey Denise Levertov, one of the twentieth-century's foremost American poets, was born in Ilford, Essex, England, in 1923. She was privately educated and served as a nurse in London during World War II. She emigrated to America in 1948 after she married Mitchell Goodman. They had one son Nikolai Goodman who is an artist and writer. Levertov lived in Somerville, Massachusetts, for a number of years while teaching at Brandeis, MIT, and Tufts. She moved to Seattle in 1989 and settled cl...
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University Of California Denise Levertov
1,326 wordsCaren Irr Rexroth, Kenneth (22 Dec. 1905 - 6 June 1982), poet and translator, was born Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth in South Bend, Indiana, the son of Charles Rexroth, a pharmaceuticals salesman, and Delia Reed. Owing to Charles rocky career, the family moved frequently throughout the northern midwest until Delia died in 1916 and Charles in 1919. For the next three years, Rexroth lived with an aunt in Chicago. After his expulsion from high school, he educated himself in literary salons, nightc...
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William Carlos Williams T S Eliot
2,200 wordsA Poets Valediction by Nicholas OConnell In a final interview, poet Denise Levertov discusses the egotism of modern poetry, the sacredness of writing, and the spiritual hunger of our technologically dependent society. Denise Levertov, who died on December 20, 1997, was much loved by her readers and an inspiration to several generations of poets. She forged a middle path in modern poetry, marrying the hard, dry objective style of the Imagist poets with the music and metaphysical yearnings of figu...
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Quot Quot Poems Quot
8,655 wordsDenise Levertov Andre: Prior to the sixties you suppressed the direct autobiographical allusions. But now you seem to be pulling in more actual facts. Would you say again this is related to movements in poetry, such as confessional poetry? Levertov: Im rather antagonistic on the whole to what is called confessional poetry which seems to exploit the private life. Ive even felt that some young poets, students, feel that they have to make a suicide attempt, that they must spend some time in a menta...
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Denise Levertov Writes Blotch Of Ink Sand
806 wordsLife is like a constant journey of discovery. As we go through life we take what we experience and we interpret it. For each person there is a Kaleidoscope of different experiences and interpretations. People find meaning in everything. Take for example the What do you see in this blotch of ink methodology used by psychologists. Several interpretations are formed on a blotch of ink; one person may say it represents a dinosaur, while another may say a rabbit. Within poetry this varying realm of i...
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