Editing Denise Levertov (section)

{{short description|American poet (1923–1997)}}
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| name          = Denise Levertov
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| birth_name    = Priscilla Denise Levertoff<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?lastname=levertov&lastname_variants=true&eventyear=1923&eventyear_offset=0|title=Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006}}</ref>
| birth_date    = 24 October 1923
| birth_place   = [[Ilford]], [[Essex]], England
| death_date    = {{death date and age|df=yes|1997|12|20|1923|10|24}}
| death_place   = [[Seattle, Washington]], USA<ref>''Notable American women: a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century'', Harvard University Press, 2004, p. 384.</ref>
| occupation    = Poet
| period        = 1946 to 1997
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| awards        = [[Shelley Memorial Award]] <small>(1984)</small><br>[[Robert Frost Medal]] <small>(1990)</small>
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'''Priscilla Denise Levertov''' (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet.<ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/41 "Denise Levertov"], ''The Academy of American Poets''.</ref> She was heavily influenced by the [[Black Mountain poets]] and by the political context of the [[Vietnam War]], which she explored in her poetry book ''The Freeing of the Dust''. She was a recipient of the [[Lannan Literary Awards#Lannan Literary Award for Poetry|Lannan Literary Award for Poetry]].