Elizabeth Jennings

Stephen McInerney (Campion College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 18 Jul 1926
Died 26 Oct 2001
Activity 1944-2001

Places

Born in England
Active in England

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Poet

Resources

Jennings' Works

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One of the most distinguished poets to emerge in Britain since the Second World War, Elizabeth Jennings is also one of the most popular. The accessibility of her style, simple, formal and elegant, and her treatment of the great categories of human meaning and experience – the Good, the Beautiful and the True; suffering, love, art and religion – made her a favorite of the general reading public, as well as poets and critics. Yet Jennings was in many ways a paradoxical figure, evading easy categorization: Enamored of the fragmentary modernism of Eliot, she nonetheless chose for herself a less allusive and elusive approach that renders vivid the domestic and natural environments she inhabited. Exploring the depth and circumstances of clinical depression, her work, which emerged alongside…

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Citation: McInerney, Stephen. "Elizabeth Jennings". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 July 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2359, accessed 25 November 2024.]