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American poet (–)

Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October – 20 December ) was a British-born naturalised American poet.^[3] 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 Award for Poetry.

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Early life and influences

Levertov was born and grew up in Ilford, Essex, England.^[4] Her mother, Beatrice Adelaide (née Spooner-Jones) Levertoff, came from a small mining village in North Wales.^[4][5] Her father, Paul Levertoff, had been a teacher at Leipzig University and as a Russian Hasidic Jew was held under house arrest during the First World War as an "enemy alien" by virtue of his ethnicity.

He emigrated to the UK and became an Anglican priest after converting to Christianity. In the mistaken belief that he would want to preach in a Jewish neighbourhood, he was hou