Article: "Help thou mine unbelief": perception in Denise Levertov's religious poetry.

PAUL Lacey in '"To Meditate a Saving Strategy': Denise Levertov's Religious Poetry" (1997-1998) acknowledges that Levertov has "always been a religious poet who "borrowed from spiritual or religious discourse" (Renascence 17). Lacey emphasizes her determination to "explore such borderlands revealed ... by the artist and the saint ... between form and content, between doubt and belief, the inner and the outer life" (19). The aim of this paper is to highlight the value of perception and bodily processes, understood by Denise Levertov as the manner to confront life in her poems. Her constant "spiritual quest" (19) crystallizes in lines closely linked to the present, into ...

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