Priscilla Denise Levertov was a poet. From 1982 to 1993, She taught at Stanford University. During World War II, Levertov was a civilian nurse in London throughout the bombings. She wrote her first book, "The Double Image," while she was between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one. It was published in 1946 and brought her recognition as one of a group of poets dubbed the "New Romantics."After the war, Levertov moved to New York and continued to write poetry. Her first American book, "Here and Now," was published in 1956. She went on to publish more than twenty volumes of poetry, including "The Freeing of the Dust" (1975), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She also wrote four books of prose and translated of three volumes of poetry.Levertov spent the last decade of her life in Seattle. She died in 1997.