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.
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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.

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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 U. A. Fanthorpe
She co-operated with others in many further works. She appeared with Tony Lopez in Mortal Heart, 1981. In 1994 she participated in two joint projects: Painter and Poet: Three Poems (limited edition), where her...
Textual Production Ruth Pitter
The final book by RP to appear before her death was Collected Poems, with an introduction by Elizabeth Jennings .
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Textual Production Anne Ridler
This collection contained contributions from poets, artists, and musicians to the celebration of the nine hundredth anniversary of Winchester Cathedral. Humphrey Clucas , Clive Sansom , Leslie Norris , Elizabeth Jennings , Peter Levi ,...

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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.