I don’t think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.
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| Birth: | 24th October, 1923 |
| Death: | 20th December, 1997 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
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Denise Levertov was a British-born American poet. Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex. Her mother, Beatrice Adelaide Levertoff, came from a small mining village in North Wales.
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