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Guide to the Denise Levertov Papers http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1b69n517 No online items Guide to the Denise Levertov Papers Stephan J. Potchatek Department of Special Collections Green Library Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc © 2007 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Guide to the Denise Levertov M0601 1 Papers Guide to the Denise Levertov Papers Collection number: M0601 Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, California Processed by: Stephan J. Potchatek Date Completed: 1999; updated 2007 Encoded by: Stephan J. Potchatek and Bill O'Hanlon © 2007 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Denise Levertov papers Dates: ca. 1945-1997 Collection number: M0601 Creator: Levertov, Denise Collection Size: ca. 159 linear ft. Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. Abstract: The Denise Levertov papers provide a remarkable window into the life of this important English-born, American poet. According to Kenneth Rexroth, Denise Levertov was "the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, the most modest, the most moving." Her papers document the process of her writing, her relationships with others of her generation, and the role of this "poet in the world." The family papers (series 1), which feature substantial correspondence with Levertov's mother, with her former husband Mitchell Goodman and with her son, combine with Levertov's personal papers to offer a rich source for biographical study. The manuscripts (series 2) and notebooks (series 3) document Levertov's creative process, recording the development of individual poems from earliest drafts to printed texts. Levertov's correspondence (series 4) with other writers and public figures open numerous avenues into contemporary literary and social history. Especially important are the letters from fellow writers William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Hayden Carruth, Gael Turnbull, Eve Triem, and Susan Glickman. Also important is the correspondence with Levertov's longtime editor at New Directions, James Laughlin. The remainder of the collection contains Levertov's professional papers (series 5), accumulated printed materials, and personal artifacts. Taken together, these papers provide the researcher with as complete a portrait of Levertov and her times as is currently available. Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English Access Collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use. Publication Rights Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections. Preferred Citation Denise Levertov papers, M0601. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Acquisition Information Purchased from Denise Levertov, 1993 Biography / Administrative History Denise Levertov, an Anglo-American poet who took up such social and political issues as the Vietnam war and nuclear proliferation, was born in Ilford, England, in 1923. The daughter of a prominent scholar and a Welsh mother, Levertov was privately educated in England before coming to the United States in 1948 with her husband, the American novelist Mitchell Goodman. In nearly fifty years, in 24 volumes of poems, Levertov became one of the United States's most prominent writers. Her writing is uncompromising, dignified by a spare and clear style and with an immediacy of language in the Guide to the Denise Levertov M0601 2 Papers tradition of William Carlos Williams. For example, in "The ache of marriage," Levertov writes: The ache of marriage: thigh and tongue, beloved, are heavy with it, it throbs in the teeth We look for communion and are turned away, beloved, each and each It is leviathan and we in its belly looking for joy, some joy not to be known outside it two by two in the ark of the ache of it. Collections of her poetry include The Double Image (1946), Here and Now (1957), Overland to the Islands (1958), The Sorrow Dance (1967), Relearning the Alphabet (1970), Footprints (1972), Oblique Prayers (1984), A Door in the Hive (1989), Evening Train (1993), and Sands of the Well (1996). Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997. She was 74. 1923 Oct. Born Denise Levertoff, Ilford, Essex, England, second daughter of Paul Philip Levertoff and Beatrice 24 Spooner-Jones Levertoff. Educated privately. 1940 Publishes first poem "Listening to Distant Guns" in Poetry Quarterly.-Vol. 2, no. 4 (Winter 1940), p. 96. 1946 Publishes first volume of poems, The double image (London: The Cresset Press). 1947 Serves as nurse in an English hospital at Paris. Meets Mitchell Goodman in Geneva and marries him December 2nd. 1948 Levertov and Goodman move to New York City. Kenneth Rexroth publishes six of Levertov's poems [Christmas, 1944-The Anteroom-Folding a Shirt-The Barricades-Autumn Journey-Poem ["Some are too much at home..."] in The new British poets : an anthology (Norfolk, CT: New Directions). 1949 Son Nikolai Gregor Goodman born. 1955 Denise Levertov is naturalized a United States citizen. 1957 - 1958 Lives in Mexico. 1957 First American collection, Here and now (San Francisco: City Lights Bookshop), is published. 1958 Jonathan Williams' Jargon Society publishes Overland to the islands (Highlands, NC : Jonathan Williams, Publisher), as Jargon 19. 1959 With eyes at the back of our heads (New York: New Directions). 1961 The Jacob's ladder (New York: New Directions). Becomes poetry editor for The Nation. 1962 Guggenheim Fellow. 1964 O taste and see: new poems (New York: New Directions). 1965 Writer in residence at City College of New York. 1966-1967 Teaches at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY. 1967 The sorrow dance: poems (New York: New Directions). In praise of Krishna: songs from the Bengali. Edward C. Dimock, Jr. and Denise Levertov, trans. (Garden City: Doubleday). Out of the war shadow : an anthology of current poetry, compiled and edited by Denise Levertov. (New York: War Resisters League). 1968 A tree telling of Orpheus (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press). The cold spring & other poems (New York: New Directions). 1969 Embroideries (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press). Guillevic, Eug?ne. Selected poems. Denise Levertov, trans. (New York: New Directions). Visiting lecturer, University of California, Berkeley. 1969-1970 Visiting professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1970 Relearning the alphabet (New York: New Directions). Guide to the Denise Levertov M0601 3 Papers Summer poems, 1969 (Berkeley: Oyez ). A new year's garland for my students /MIT 1969-1970. (Mt. Horeb, Wis., Perishable Press). Receives honorary D.Litt. from Colby College. 1971 To stay alive (New York: New Directions). 1972 Footprints (New York: New Directions). Trip with Muriel Rukeyser to Vietnam. 1972-1978 Teaches at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. 1973 Conversation in Moscow (Cambridge: Hovey St. Press). The poet in the world (New York: New Directions). 1975 The freeing of the dust (New York : New Directions). 1976-1978 Poetry editor, Mother Jones. 1977 Chekhov on the West Heath (Andes, N.Y. : Woolmer/Brotherson). Modulations for solo voice (San Francisco : Five Trees Press). 1977 June 8 Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff dies in Oaxaca, Mexico. 1978 Life in the forest (New York: New Directions). 1979 Collected earlier poems, 1940-1960 (New York: New Directions). 1980 Elected to American Institute of Arts and Letters. 1981 Light up the cave (New York: New Directions). Mass for the day of St. Thomas Didymus (Concord, N.H: William B. Ewert). Pig dreams : scenes from the life of Sylvia (Woodstock, Vt. : Countryman Press). Wanderer's daysong (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press). Begins teaching at Stanford University. 1982 Candles in Babylon (New York: New Directions). 1983 Poems, 1960-1967 (New York: New Directions). 1984 Oblique prayers : new poems with 14 translations from Jean Joubert (New York: New Directions). 1987 Breathing the water (New York: New Directions). Poems, 1968-1972 (New York: New Directions). 1988 Joubert, Jean. Black iris : poems. Denise Levertov, trans. (Port Townsend, WA : Copper Canyon Press). 1989 A door in the hive (New York : New Directions). 1992 New & selected essays (New York : New Directions). 1993 Evening train (New York : New Directions). 1995 Tesserae: memories & suppositions (New York: New Directions). 1996 Sands of the well (New York : New Directions). 1997 The life around us: selected poems on nature (New York : New Directions). The stream & the sapphire : selected poems on religious themes (New York: New Directions). 1997 Feb. 1 Mitchell Goodman died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Temple, Maine. He was 73. 1997 Dec. Denise Levertov died from complications from lymphoma at the Swedish Hospital in Seattle. She was 74. She is 20 survived by her son Nikolai Gregor Goodman. 1998 New Directions releases The letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams, edited by Christopher MacGowan. 1999 A posthumous collection of Levertov's poems is released from New Directions, called This Great Unknowing: last poems. Scope and Content of Collection The Levertov papers are organized into twelve series. Series 1, Family
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