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Elizabeth Jennings

This article is about the English poet. See Lizzie Jennings for the American civil rights figure of the same name.

Elizabeth Jennings (July 18 1926 – October 26 2001) was an English poet, noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach. Her Roman Catholicism coloured much of her work.

Jennings was born in Lincolnshire, but her family moved to Oxford when she was six. There she later attended St Anne's College. After graduation, she became a librarian.

She is not generally regarded as an innovator. Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Thom Gunn, all members of the group of English poets known as The Movement. She always made it clear that, whilst her life, which included a spell of severe mental illness, contributed to the themes contained within her work, she did not write explicitly autobiographical poetry.

She is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford.

Works

Her works include An Anthology of Modern Verse 1940–1960 (1961), and a revised and updated collection, Collected Poems 1953–1985, (1986) that won the 1987 WH Smith Literary Award.

Poems (1953)
A Way of Looking (1955)
A Sense of the World (1958)
Song For a Birth or a Death (1961)
Recoveries (1964)
The Mind has Mountains (1966)
Collected Poems 1967 (1967)
The Animals' Arrival (1969)
Lucidities (1970)
Relationships (1972)
Growing Points (1975)
Consequently I Rejoice (1977)
After the Ark (1978)
Moments of Grace (1980)
Celebrations and Elegies (1912)
Extending the Territory (1985)
Collected Poems (1953-1985) (1986)

Collections

Eliabeth Jennings New Collected Poems. Carcanet Press. (2002). Retrieved on 2008-09-13..
Michelangelo, Eliabeth Jennings (Tr.) Sonnets of Michelangelo. Carcanet Press. (2002). Retrieved on 2008-09-13..
Eliabeth Jennings Timely Issues. Carcanet Press. (2001). Retrieved on 2008-09-13..
Eliabeth Jennings Praises. Carcanet Press. (1998). Retrieved on 2008-09-13..
Eliabeth Jennings A Poet's Choice. Carcanet Press. (1996). Retrieved on 2008-09-13..
Eliabeth Jennings In the Meantime. Carcanet Press. (1996). Retrieved on 2008-09-13..
Eliabeth Jennings Every Changing Shape. Carcanet Press. (1996). Retrieved on 2008-09-13..
Eliabeth Jennings Times and Seasons. Carcanet Press. (1992). Retrieved on 2008-09-13..
Eliabeth Jennings Tributes. Carcanet Press. (1989). Retrieved on 2008-09-13..
Eliabeth Jennings Selected Poems. Carcanet Press. (1987). Retrieved on 2008-09-13..