Elizabeth Jennings: Poet's Choice - Couverture souple

Jennings, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1857542622 ISBN 13 : 9781857542622

Editeur : Carcanet Press Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

In this collection, Elizabeth Jennings includes the poems which helped shape her taste - poems she read at school, or discovered in book shops and the library, or pored over as an under-graduate-work which first gave her a taste for the art of poetry and taught the formal and thematic skills she has practised for fifty years. Many of the poems chosen will be familiar to poetry lovers: what is exciting is the way she brings them together in a kind of commonplace book, conveying to a new audience the magic that enchanted her.

This anthology is a window on the personal culture of one of our best-loved writers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1926, and lived most of her life in Oxford, where she moved in 1932. She was educated at Rye St Antony and Oxford High School before reading English at St Anne s College, Oxford, where she began a B.Litt., but left to pursue a career in copy-editing in London. Returning to Oxford to take up a full-time post as a librarian at the city library, Jennings worked briefly at Chatto and Windus before becoming a full-time poet. Her second volume of poetry, A Way of Looking (1955), won the Somerset Maugham Award, which allowed her to travel to Rome, a city which had an immense impact on her poetry and Roman Catholic faith. While she suffered from physical and mental ill health from her early thirties, Jennings was a popular and widely read poet. She received the W.H. Smith award in 1987 for Collected Poems 1953 1985, and in 1992 was awarded a CBE. She died in Rosebank Care Home, Bampton, in 2001 and is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford.

Carcanet published a revised and expanded edition of The Collected Poems in 2012.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857542622
• ISBN 13: 9781857542622
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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