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
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...
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...
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...

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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.