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Robert Baird: Denise Levertov, 25 September 2014

Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life 
by Dana Greene.
Illinois, 328 pp., £22.99, October 2012, 978 0 252 03710 8
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A Poet’s Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov 
by Donna KrolikHollenberg.
California, 515 pp., £30.95, April 2013, 978 0 520 27246 0
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Collected Poems 
by Denise Levertov.
New Directions, 1063 pp., £32.99, December 2013, 978 0 8112 2173 3
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... was one of the few canonical leftist causes to which she didn’t pledge herself. Both Greene and Donna KrolikHollenberg dance around the point, but from the evidence they supply it’s clear that a large part of the reason she disliked feminism was that she felt superior to it. She had had early success, and ...

Trees are complicated

Maureen N. McLane: H.D. casts a spell, 2 February 2023

HERmione 
by H.D..
New Directions, 281 pp., £14.99, November 2022, 978 0 8112 2209 9
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Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D. 
by Donna KrolikHollenberg.
Michigan, 360 pp., £68, June 2022, 978 0 472 13301 7
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... some subtle form of courage.’To write about H.D in a biographical key presents a challenge, as Donna KrolikHollenberg observes in Winged Words: H.D.’s novels, several unpublished in her lifetime, mostly romans à clef, show the poet working and reworking her biographical material. Her work offers its own highly ...

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