Elizabeth Jennings
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- Created on: 12-02-19 09:36
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- Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001)
- Elizabeth was born in Boston, Lincolnshire but moved to Oxford at the age of six where she lived for the rest of her life.
- She studied at St. Anne's College, Oxford and worked in advertising, at the City Library and briefly in publishing before becoming a full-time writer.
- Her work has won honours of the W.H. Smith Literary Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and a CBE.
- She wrote over 20 books during her life, a New Collected Poems appearing in 2002
- Her Catholicism is a major theme in her poetry
- Initiqally linked to 'The Movement', However her work doesn't share their irony or academic wit
- “ You cannot fake anything if you are trying to write serious poetry. - Elizabeth Jennings
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