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Biography

Name: Philip Levine
Birth Date: January 10, 1928
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Russian, Jewish
Gender: Male

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Biography of Philip Levine
4,214 words, approx. 14 pages
Philip Levine was born in Detroit to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. After graduation from Wayne State University in 1950, he worked at a series of menial jobs and then left Detroit "for good." He married Frances Artley in 1954, and they lived in...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Philip Levine Information
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Philip Levine, one of several people including Philip Levine (poet) (b. 1928), an American anarchist poet & professor of English Philip Levine (physician) (1900-1987), Russian-born American immuno-hematologist, researched blood groups Philip Levine...


News and Journals
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World Literature Today
Philip Levine: The Mercy.(Brief Article)
01/01/2002: 506 words, approx. 2 pages
New York. Knopf. 2000 (c1999) viii + 81 pages. $22 ($15 paper) ISBN 0-375-40138-5 (70135-4 paper) READING THESE DEEPLY human and well-crafted poems is a major literary experience. They remind us of what poetry should be: not the record of merely arranging...
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The Boston Globe
Philip Levine, 64; an executive in New England steel industry
12/23/1994: 420 words, approx. 1 pages
Philip Levine, an immigrant baker's son who rose from technician in a steel plant to senior executive in the New England steel industry, died at Massachusetts General Hospital Monday after being struck by a van while crossing Massachusetts Avenue Sunday evening. He was buried...
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The New York Observer
Though Uncertainty Continues, Ellis Lets Paint Do the Talking
4/23/2006: 841 words, approx. 3 pages
Sept. 11 has occasioned a lot of art, and most of it is lousy. No surprise, really: It’s rare to find a painter, novelist, playwright or filmmaker who can tease out the nuances of actual, often devastating events or bring order to them. The typical...
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The New York Observer
Though Uncertainty Continues, Ellis Lets Paint Do the Talking
4/23/2006: 841 words, approx. 3 pages
Sept. 11 has occasioned a lot of art, and most of it is lousy. No surprise, really: It’s rare to find a painter, novelist, playwright or filmmaker who can tease out the nuances of actual, often devastating events or bring order to them. The typical...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Carol Frost
7,485 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following review of New Selected Poems and What Work Is, Frost not only considers the poems of these two books, but also ranges over the spectrum of Levine's wider output and poetic career.
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Critical Essay by Richard Chess
7,368 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Chess discusses the Jewishness of Levine's poetry. He contends that when Levine tackles an explicitly Jewish topic, the result is often cliché. However, when he writes sincerely of general social and political justice, a genuine Jewish voice emerges.
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Critical Review by Carol Frost
7,347 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following review, Frost discusses Levine 's poetic influences and favorably reviews New Selected Poems and What Work Is.
 


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