About Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet. Regarded as traditionalist rather than an innovator, Jennings is known for her lyric poetry and mastery of form. Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Thom Gunn, all members of the group of English poets known as The Movement. She always made it clear that, whilst her life, which included a spell of severe mental illness, contributed to the themes contained within her work, she did not write explicitly autobiographical poetry. Here are below some of her most beautiful and best lyric poems.Browse all poems and texts published on Elizabeth Jennings
Her deeply held Roman Catholicism coloured much of her work.
