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Listening to distant guns (1923-1948). "The walls of the garden, the first light": beginnings (1923-1933); "When Anna screamed": Levertov's response to Nazi oppression (1933-1939); The double image: apprenticeship during World War Two (1939-1946); "Recoveries": abortion, adventure, and marriage (1947- 48) -- A common ground (1949-1966). "Dancing edgeways": coming of age as a poet in the new world (1949-1955); "The true artist": Levertov's engagement with tradition (1954-1960) -- "The poem ascends": taking a position (1960-1963) -- "To speak of sorrow": Levertov's emergence as a social poet (1963?1966) -- Life at war (1966-74). "Revolution or death": living in the movement (1966-1970); "The freeing of the dust": the revolution hits home (1970-1974) -- Sleepers awake (1975-1988). "A woman alone": beginning again (1975-1981); "Writing in the dark": social protest and liberation theology (1982-1988) -- Resettling (1989-1997). "Of shadow and flame": the re-cognition of identity (1989-1992); "Beauty growls in the fertile dark": facing death (1992-1997). |
