Elizabeth Jennings

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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.
qtd. in
The Ship. St Anne’s College.
92: 54
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.
  • BirthName: Elizabeth Joan Jennings
    Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2025, Annual Volumes.
    “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
    The Feminist Companion mistakenly gives her surname at birth as Cecil (which was her father's second given name).

Milestones

18 July 1926

EJ was born at Boston in Lincolnshire.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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28 June 2001

Carcanet published a final volume of EJ 's poetry, Timely Issues, dedicated to Dr Hywel W. Jones .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Jennings, Elizabeth. Timely Issues. Carcanet, 2001.
prelims

26 October 2001

EJ died of heart failure in an old people's home at Bampton in Oxfordshire after several years' frailty and illness.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Ship. St Anne’s College.
91: 65

Biography

Birth and Background

18 July 1926

EJ was born at Boston in Lincolnshire.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
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