- Elizabeth Jennings
:"This article is about the English poet. See
Lizzie Jennings for the American civil rights figure of the same name."Elizabeth Jennings (
July 18 1926 –October 26 2001 ) was an Englishpoet , noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach. HerRoman Catholicism coloured much of her work.Jennings was born in
Lincolnshire , but her family moved toOxford when she was six. There she later attended St Anne's College. After graduation, she became alibrarian .She is not generally regarded as an innovator. Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with
Philip Larkin ,Kingsley Amis andThom Gunn , all members of the group of English poets known as The Movement. She always made it clear that, whilst her life, which included a spell of severemental illness , contributed to the themes contained within her work, she did not write explicitly autobiographical poetry.She is buried in
Wolvercote Cemetery , Oxford.Works
Her works include "An Anthology of Modern Verse 1940–1960" (1961), and a revised and updated collection, "Collected Poems 1953–1985", (1986) that won the 1987
WH Smith Literary Award .* "Poems" (1953)
* "A Way of Looking" (1955)
* "A Sense of the World" (1958)
* "Song For a Birth or a Death" (1961)
* "Recoveries" (1964)
* "The Mind has Mountains" (1966)
* "Collected Poems 1967" (1967)
* "The Animals' Arrival" (1969)
* "Lucidities" (1970)
* "Relationships" (1972)
* "Growing Points" (1975)
* "Consequently I Rejoice" (1977)
* "After the Ark" (1978)
* "Moments of Grace" (1980)
* "Celebrations and Elegies" (1912)
* "Extending the Territory" (1985)
* "Collected Poems (1953-1985)" (1986)Collections
*cite web
author = Eliabeth Jennings
year = 2002
title = New Collected Poems
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*cite web
author = Michelangelo, Eliabeth Jennings (Tr.)
year = 2002
title = Sonnets of Michelangelo
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*cite web
author = Eliabeth Jennings
year = 2001
title = Timely Issues
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publisher = Carcanet Press
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*cite web
author = Eliabeth Jennings
year = 1998
title = Praises
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*cite web
author = Eliabeth Jennings
year = 1996
title = A Poet's Choice
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*cite web
author = Eliabeth Jennings
year = 1996
title = In the Meantime
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publisher = Carcanet Press
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*cite web
author = Eliabeth Jennings
year = 1996
title = Every Changing Shape
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publisher = Carcanet Press
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*cite web
author = Eliabeth Jennings
year = 1992
title = Times and Seasons
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publisher = Carcanet Press
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*cite web
author = Eliabeth Jennings
year = 1989
title = Tributes
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*cite web
author = Eliabeth Jennings
year = 1987
title = Selected Poems
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publisher = Carcanet Press
accessdate = 2008-09-13External links
* [http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/elizabeth_jennings_2004_9.pdf Some Elizabeth Jennings' poems]
* [http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/elizabeth_jennings Some more Elizabeth Jennings' poems]
* [http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/jennings/jenning2.html] , [http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/jennings/jenning3.html] , [http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/jennings/jenning4.html] - Elizabeth Jennings Poetry Notebooks
* [http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl173.htm] , [http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl136.htm] - Elizabeth Jennings' papers
* [http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=6383 Analysis of her poetry]
* "A Chinese Sage" - from "Growing Points" (1975):
** [http://www.coursework.info/I_B_/World_Literature/A_Chinese_Sage_is_a_poem_written_by_Elizabeth_Jennings_L40045.html Comment 1]
** [http://www.coursework.info/Detailed/GCSE/English_Literature/Poetry/Miscellaneous/A_Chinese_Sage_by_Elizabeth_Jennings_-_poetry_commentry._L41554.html Comment 2]
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