Elizabeth Jennings: Selected Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (664 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0856352829 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 122 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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She died in Rosebank Care Home, Bampton, in 2001 and is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford. Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1926, and lived most of her life in Oxford, where she moved in 1932. She was educated at Rye St Antony and Oxford High School before reading English at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she began a B.Litt., but left to pursue a career in copy-editing in London. While she suffered from physical and mental ill healt
While she suffered from physical and mental ill health from her early thirties, Jennings was a popular and widely read poet. About the Author Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1926, and lived most of her life in Oxford, where she moved in 1932. Returning to Oxford to take up a full-time post as a librarian at the city library, Jennings worked briefly at Chatto and Windus before becoming a full-time poet. . She died in Rosebank Care Home, Bampton, in 2001 and is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford. Her second volume of
Represents the poet's own distillation of the two decades of her writing - the poems which established her as one of the passionate and precise of our writers, a woman of human values, religious vision and natural sympathy.
Whoa, are these good English poet Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) has maintained a reputation that is solid but not nearly as great as it should be. As a traditionalist who typically writes in strict forms, she is sometimes grouped with Philip Larkin (like him, she was a librarian) or Thom Gunn, though to me her clean language, precision, and perfect fusion of the emotional and the intellectual are closer to Robert Graves. But comparisons may obscure the uniqueness of her achievement in creating a body of work which is at once wholly modern and wholly traditional. Readers looking for poetry which is mo