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
Literary responses Carol Ann Duffy
Elizabeth Jennings praised CAD 's dexterity with language, that glorious juggling which poets sometimes achieve with a sense of surprise even to themselves.
Duffy, Carol Ann. Selected Poems. Penguin.
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The book won a Somerset Maugham Award, intended to fund travel...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The other poets included are Kathleen Raine , Denise Levertov , Elizabeth Jennings , Elaine Feinstein , Ruth Fainlight , Sylvia Plath , Jenny Joseph , Anne Stevenson , and Fleur Adcock .
Textual Production Gillian Clarke
GC has contributed poems to more than half a dozen journals, Welsh, English, and American, and most frequently to Poetry Wales, the New Welsh Review, and Poetry Nation Review (PNR). She has reviewed...
Anthologization Fleur Adcock
From early in her career FA was an insightful critic as well as a poet, and her judgements were already informed by a matured understanding of the shaping force of gender. Dannie Abse included her...

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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.