Elizabeth Jennings

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Standard Name: Jennings, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Joan Jennings
EJ was a twentieth-century English poet writing on family, literary, and religious subjects. Peter Levi calls her maybe the last poet of what may be called the soul.
The Ship. St Anne’s College.
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Early in her career she was identified as being part of the Movement, along with other young Oxford poets like Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin . She found this label problematic.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Jo Shapcott
JS was, with Helen Dunmore , U. A. Fanthorpe , and Elizabeth Jennings , one of the four poets featured in no. 5 of the audio-cassette series The Poetry Quartets, issued today by the...
Textual Production Penelope Shuttle
The first book that affected PS deeply was Brontë 's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified.
Steffens, Daneet. “Penelope Shuttle”. Mslexia, No. 33, pp. 46-8.
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At fifteen she read T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and conceived a wish to be...
Literary responses Edith Sitwell
This was praised by British Book News, which rejoiced to find ES 's astonishing verbal dexterity employed in her later work upon themes of ever-increasing profundity . . . . She is a poet...
Friends, Associates Anne Stevenson
In Oxford AS met a number of other poets: John Wain , Anne Ridler , Elizabeth Jennings , Anne Born , Andrew Motion , Craig Raine , Peter Levi , and Anne Pennington , who died a few years later.
Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research.
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Texts

Jennings, Elizabeth. Relationships. Macmillan, 1972.
Jennings, Elizabeth. Song for a Birth or a Death. A. Deutsch, 1961.
Jennings, Elizabeth, editor. The Batsford Book of Children’s Verse. Batsford, 1958.
Jennings, Elizabeth. The Mind Has Mountains. Macmillan, 1966.
Michelangelo, and Michael Ayrton. The Sonnets of Michelangelo. Translator Jennings, Elizabeth, Folio Society, 1961.
Jennings, Elizabeth. Timely Issues. Carcanet, 2001.
Jennings, Elizabeth. Times and Seasons. Carcanet, 1992.
Jennings, Elizabeth. Tributes. Carcanet, 1989.