Denise Levertov Death Cause and Date

Denise Levertov's Death

Born (Birthday) October 24, 1923

Death Date December 20, 1997

Age of Death 74 years

Cause of Death Lymphoma

Profession Poet

The poet Denise Levertov died at the age of 74. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Poet known for Evening Train, The Jacob’s Ladder, and other collections of religious and spiritual poetry. Her literary career began in the mid-1940s and lasted five decades.

She was born and raised in Essex, England, but lived in New York, Massachusetts, and Washington during her adult life.

Denise Levertov, a poet of intense emotion and fervid political conviction, died on Saturday at the Swedish Hospital in Seattle, where she lived. She was 74. The cause was complications from lymphoma, said Griselda Ohannessian of New Directions, Ms. Levertov’s publisher.