Denise Levertov; Award-Winning Poet

Denise Levertov, 74, a socially committed poet who was a vocal protester of nuclear power and the Vietnam War. Her poems included the fiercely antiwar “Advent 1966,” “During the Eichman Trial,” “A Tree Telling of Orpheus” and “The Ache of Marriage.” She published more than 20 volumes of poetry beginning in 1946. Born in England and educated mostly at home, she married an American and moved to the United States after World War II, later becoming a U.S. citizen. She taught at Stanford University for 13 years and won many prizes, including the Robert Frost Medal, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship. On Saturday in Seattle of the complications of lymphoma.