Elizabeth Jennings
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Elizabeth Joan 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. She always made it clear that, whilst her life, which includes a spell of severe mental illness, contributed to the themes contained within her work, she did not write explicitly autobiographical poetry.
She is not generally regarded as an innovator. Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme that she shares with Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Thom Gunn, all members of the group of English poets known as The Movement.
An Anthology of Modern Verse 1940-1960 (1961)
Edited by Jennings. Poets included were:
Dannie Abse - Kingsley Amis - W. H. Auden - George Barker - Patricia Beer - John Betjeman - Thomas Blackburn - Norman Cameron - Roy Campbell - Demetrios Capetanakis - Charles Causley - Jack Clemo - Alex Comfort - Robert Conquest - Hilary Corke - Donald Davie - Walter De la Mare - Patric Dickinson - Keith Douglas - Lawrence Durrell - T. S. Eliot - William Empson - D. J. Enright - Margiad Evans - Roy Fuller - David Gascoyne - W. S. Graham - Robert Graves - Thom Gunn - J. C. Hall - Michael Hamburger - John Heath-Stubbs - Geoffrey Hill - John Holloway - Ted Hughes - Zofia Ilinska - Elizabeth Jennings - David Jones - Jenny Joseph - Patrick Kavanagh - P. J. Kavanagh - Sidney Keyes - Thomas Kinsella - Philip Larkin - Laurie Lee - John Lehmann - Peter Levi - Alun Lewis - C. Day Lewis - Christopher Logue - Norman MacCaig - Louis MacNeice - Adrian Mitchell - Dom Moraes - Edwin Muir - Norman Nicholson - Philip Oakes - Ruth Pitter - William Plomer - F. T. Prince - Michell Raper - Herbert Read - Henry Reed - James Reeves - Anne Ridler - Lynette Roberts - Michael Roberts - W. R. Rodgers - Alan Ross - E. J. Scovell - Martin Seymour-Smith - Burns Singer - Edith Sitwell - Stevie Smith - Helen Spalding - Bernard Spencer - Stephen Spender - Quentin Stevenson - Dylan Thomas - R. S. Thomas - Anthony Thwaite - Terence Tiller - Charles Tomlinson - Constantine Trypanis - John Wain - Vernon Watkins - Benet Weatherhead - Paul West - Laurence Whistler - David Wright - Andrew Young - Lotte Zurndorfer