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The Collected Poems: Elizabeth Jennings Revised Edition
Author(s): Elizabeth Jennings (Author), Emma Mason
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 31 Mar. 2012
- Edition: Revised ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 1063 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847770681
- ISBN-13: 9781847770684
Book Description
The Collected Poems is a new and definitive edition of the poetry of one of the best-loved and most enduringly popular modern poets. Almost all of Jennings’s published poetry (including work never before collected) and a large selection of her unpublished poems are included here, together with resources detailing her poetry, prose, essays, plays and correspondence. An afterword draws on her unpublished autobiography ‘As I Am’ and her unpublished theological prose to illuminate the religious faith at the heart of her poetry. Emma Mason, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick, has written extensively on religion in English literature. Her critical edition enables Jennings’s poetry to speak to a new generation of readers.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Jennings’s best work succeeds because it is honest without being simplistic… Emma Mason’s editing is outstandingly thorough and careful.’ –Graeme Richardson, Times Literary Supplement
Some of the finest lyric poetry of the twentieth century –Anne Stevenson
her verse will go on lasting when showier presences have departed –Kingsley Amis
A major poet of our time –Germaine Greer
A major poet of our time –Germaine Greer
About the Author
Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1926 and spent most of her life in Oxford. Her first book won a Somerset Maugham Award, and many distinctions followed, among them the W.H. Smith Award (1987) and a C.B.E. Over the last twenty years Carcanet has published many of her books including Selected Poems, Collected Poems, Tributes, Times and Seasons, Familiar Spirits, In the Meantime, Praises, her translations of Michelangelo’s Sonnets, her critical meditation Every Changing Shape and her anthology A Poet’s Choice. She died in 2002.
