10-536: Elizabeth Jennings may refer: Elizabeth Jennings (poet) (1926–2001), English poet Elizabeth Jennings Graham (1827–1901), African-American teacher Jean Bartik (1924–2011), American ENIAC computer programmer who may also be known as Elizabeth Jean Jennings Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans) , fictional character from the TV show The Americans " Jennings, Elizabeth ", an episode of The Americans Topics referred to by
20-601: A care home in Bampton, Oxfordshire , at the age of 75. She is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery , Oxford. Her life and career were reviewed in 2018 by Dana Gioia , who said: "Despite her worldly failures, her artistic career was a steady course of achievement. Jennings ranks among the finest British poets of the second half of the twentieth century. She is also England’s best Catholic poet since Gerard Manley Hopkins." Somerset Maugham Award The Somerset Maugham Award
30-476: Is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors . Set up by William Somerset Maugham in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The awards go to writers under the age of 35 with works published in the year before the award; the work can be either non-fiction, fiction or poetry. Since 1964 multiple winners have usually been chosen in
40-515: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Elizabeth Jennings (poet) Elizabeth Joan Jennings CBE (18 July 1926 – 26 October 2001) was a British poet. Elizabeth Jennings was born at The Bungalow, Tower Road, Skirbeck , Boston, Lincolnshire , younger daughter of physician Henry Cecil Jennings (1893–1967), MA, BSc ( Oxon. ), MB BS ( Lond. ), DPH , medical officer of health for Oxfordshire, and (Helen) Mary, née Turner. When she
50-534: 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 1950s group of English poets known as The Movement . She always made it clear that, while 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. Her deeply held Roman Catholicism coloured much of her work. She had difficulty managing
60-612: The green Asparagus beds, the cut lawn, and the smell of it Comes each summer after rain when white returns. Our bird, A canary called Peter, sang behind bars. The black and white cat Curled and snoozed by the fire and danger was far away. From "A Bird in the House" in Collected Poems (Carcanet, 1987) Jennings's early poetry was published in journals such as Oxford Poetry , New English Weekly , The Spectator , Outposts and Poetry Review , but her first book of poems
70-639: The practical aspects of her career and life. She became impoverished and struggled with mental health, and her personal difficulties tarnished her critical reputation. When she was honoured by the queen in 1992, she wore a "knitted hat, duffle coat, and canvas shoes". The tabloid newspapers mocked her as "the bag-lady of the sonnets", and the unfortunate description stayed with her. She spent the later years of her life in various short-term lodgings and in Unity House (8 St Andrew's Lane) in Old Headington . She died in
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90-590: Was not published until she was 27. The lyrical poets she cited as having influenced her were Hopkins , Auden , Graves and Muir . Her second book, A Way of Looking (155), won the Somerset Maugham Award and marked a turning point, as the prize money allowed her to spend nearly three months in Rome , which was a revelation. It brought a new dimension to her religious belief and inspired her imagination. Regarded as traditionalist rather than an innovator, Jennings
100-420: Was seven, her family moved to Oxford , where she remained for the rest of her life. There she later attended St Anne's College . After graduation, she became a writer. It was a yellow voice, a high, shrill treble in the nursery White always and high, I remember it so, White cupboard, off-white table, mugs, dolls' faces And I was four or five. The garden could have been Miles away. We were taken down to
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