Peter Levi (16. maj 1931 – 1. februar 2000), je bio britanski poetičar, naučnik i pisac. Poznat je po svom radu od 1984. do 1989. godine, kao profesor poezije na univerzitetu Oxford, ali i po biografijama i fikciji.
Rodio se u jevrejskoj porodici, koji su prešli na katoličku vjeru. Postao je isusovački svećenik. Poziv svećenika napustio je 1977. godine. Oženio se sa Deirdre, udovicom Cyrila Connollya.
Djela
Poeme Gravela Pondsa (1960) - poeme; London: Andre Deutsch.
Poezija
Levi, Peter (1962). Water, Rock and Sand. London: Andre Deutsch. Levi, Peter (1965). The Shearwaters in Longer Contemporary Poems. Richmond: Harlequin. Levi, Peter (1966). Fresh water, sea water". London: Black Raven Press. Levi, Peter (1968). Ruined abbeys. Northwood: Anvil Press. Levi, Peter (1968). Pancakes for the Queen of Babylon. Northwood: Anvil Press. Levi, Peter (1970). Ο τόνος της φωνής του Σεφέρη (Mr Seferis' Tone of Voice). Levi, Peter (1971). Death is a pulpit. London: Anvil Press. . Levi, Peter (1971). Life is a platform. London: Anvil Press. . Levi, Peter (1973). in Penguin Modern Poets vol 22. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Levi, Peter (1976). Collected poems, 1955-1975. London: Anvil Press. . Levi, Peter (1977). The noise made by poems. London: Anvil Press. Levi, Peter (1978). Five ages. London: Anvil Press. Levi, Peter (1979). Comfort at fifty for my brother. Pamphlet. Levi, Peter (1980?). Music of dark tones. Marlborough: Paulinus Press. (With an engraving by Simon Brett). Levi, Peter (1981). Private ground. London: Anvil Press. . Levi, Peter (1983). The echoing green: three elegies. London: Anvil Press. . Levi, Peter (1985). Shakespeare's birthday. London: Anvil Press. Levi, Peter (1989). Shadow and bone: poems 1981-1988. London: Anvil Press. . Levi, Peter (1994). The rags of time. London: Anvil Press. . Levi, Peter (1997). Reed music. London: Anvil Press. . Levi, Peter (2001). Viriditas. London: Anvil Press. .
Autobiografija i putovanja
Levi, Peter (1980). The Hill of Kronos. Collins. . Levi, Peter (1984). The Light Garden of the Angel King: Journeys in Afghanistan. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Levi, Peter (1996). A Bottle in the Shade: a Journey in the Western Peloponnese. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. .
Grčka i drevni svijet
Levi, Peter (1980). Atlas of the Greek world. Oxford: Phaidon. . Levi, Peter and Porter, Eliot (1981). The Greek world. London: Aurum. Levi, Peter (1985). A history of Greek literature. Harmonsworth: Viking (Penguin). . Brewster, Harry (1997). The River Gods of Greece: Myths and Mountain Waters in the Hellenic World. London : I.B. Tauris. . (Preface by Peter Levi).
Biografija i literatura
Levi, Peter (1961). Beaumont, 1861-1961. London: Andre Deutsch. Pope, Alexander. Ed. Peter Levi (1974). Pope. Selected by Peter Levi. Harmondsworth: Penguin. . Levi, Peter (1983). The flutes of autumn. (Autobiography). London: Harvill. . Boswell, James and Johnson, Samuel. Ed. Peter Levi (1984). A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. Harmondsworth: Penguin. . Levi, Peter (1988). The life and times of William Shakespeare. London: Macmillan. . Levi, Peter (1988). A private commission: new verses by Shakespeare. London: Macmillan. . Levi, Peter (1989). Goodbye to the art of poetry. London: Anvil Press. . Levi, Peter (1990). Boris Pasternak. London: Hutchinson. . Levi, Peter (1993). Tennyson. Macmillan. . Levi, Peter (1995). Edward Lear: a biography. London: Macmillan. . Levi, Peter (1996). Eden renewed: the public and private life of John Milton. London: Macmillan. . Levi, Peter (1997). Horace: a life London. Duckworth (2001). . Levi, Peter (1998). Virgil: his life and times. London: Duckworth.
Prevodi
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. Trans. Peter Levi and Robin Milner-Gulland (1966). Poems: chosen by the author.London: Collins and Harvill. Pausanias. Trans. Peter Levi (1971). Guide to Greece.Harmondsworth: Penguin. The Bible. Trans. Peter Levi (1976). The psalms. Harmondsworth: Penguin. . Pavlopoulos, George. Trans. Peter Levi (1977). The cellar. London: Anvil Press. . Papadiamantis, Alexandros. Trans. Peter Levi (1983). The murderess. London: Writers and Readers. Unknown. Trans. Anne Pennington and Peter Levi. (1984). Marko the Prince: Serbo-Croat heroic songs. London: Duckworth. . The Bible. Trans. Peter Levi (1985). The Holy Gospel of John. Worthing: Churchman. . de Courcel, Martine. Trans. Peter Levi (1988). Tolstoy: the ultimate reconciliation. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. . The Bible. Trans. Peter Levi (1992). The Revelation of John. London: Kyle Cathie. . Papadiamantis, Alexandros. Trans. Peter Levi (1995). The murderess. London: Loizou. .
Religijska djela
The Bible. Compiled. Peter Levi (1974). The English Bible, 1534-1859. London: Constable. . Levi, Peter ed. (1984). The Penguin book of English Christian verse. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN Link0140422927. Levi, Peter (1987). The frontiers of paradise: a study of monks and monasteries. London: Collins Harvill. . Bernard, Bruce and Lloyd, Christopher (1987). The Queen Of Heaven - A Selection of Paintings of the Virgin Mary. London: Macdonald Orbis. (Introduction by Peter Levi).
Članci i predavanja
Levi, Peter (1975). John Clare and Thomas Hardy. University of London: The Athlone Press. Levi, Peter (1975). In memory of David Jones: a sermon. In The Tablet. O'Connell, Eileen. Trans. Eilos Dillon (1984). The Lamentation of the Dead with "The Lament For Arthur O'Leary". . Levi, Peter (1990). Hopkins a'i Dduw, (Hopkins and his God). North Wales Arts Association. ISSN 0260-6720. Levi, Peter (1991). The art of poetry: the Oxford lectures, 1984-1989. New Haven: Yale University Press. .
Romani
Levi, Peter (1979). The head in the soup. London: Constable. . Levi, Peter (1985). Grave witness. London: Quartet. . Levi, Peter (1986). Knit one, drop one. London: Quartet. . Levi, Peter (1988). To the goat. Hutchinson. . Connolly, Cyril (1903–1974) concluded by Peter Levi (1990). Shade those laurels. London: Bellew. .
Reference
Vanjski linkovi
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3379/the-art-of-poetry-no-24-peter-levi
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