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Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov was born in Ilford, Essex, in England, on October 24, 1923. Her mother, Beatrice Adelaide, came from a North Wales mining village. Her father, Paul Levertoff, taught at Leipzig University until, as a

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Featured Poem

Perhaps No Poem at All But All I Can Say and I Cannot Be Silent

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October 24

Denise Levertov born, 1923

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

On what poet did Cecil Day Lewis initially base the character Nigel Strangeways, the detective of his crime novels?

Answer

Writing under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, Day Lewis initially based the character on W. H. Auden, however he later made the character less extravagant.

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