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Elizabeth Joan Jennings CBE (18 July 1926 – 26 October 2001) [1] was an English poet. Life and career. 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.
Elizabeth Jennings (born July 18, 1926, Boston, Lincolnshire, England—died October 26, 2001, Bampton, Oxfordshire) was an English poet whose works relate intensely personal matters in a plainspoken, traditional, and objective style.
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Elizabeth Jennings is a prolific 20th-century poet who is known for her quantity of quality poetic works, publishing an astonishing twenty-six books of poetry during her career. Jennings was also celebrated for being the only woman to be included in the Movement, a group of English poets who based their work around an anti-romantic aesthetic.
Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet whose work, though published primarily in the mid-to-late twentieth century, continues to find new readers drawn to her explorations of faith, nature, and the interior life.
Elizabeth Jennings was a British poet and devout Catholic. Born in 1926, she studied English at Oxford. Her poem 'The Annunciation' focuses on Mary's reaction to divine news. It highlights Mary's emotional struggle and the human impact of divine plans.
Jennings, the daughter of Thomas L. Jennings, a free-born Black man, and his wife, Elizabeth, was raised among accomplished Black ministers, journalists, educators and businessmen devoted to the abolitionist cause and knew how to organize and push for change.
Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) was born in Boston, Lincolnshire but moved to Oxford at the age of six where she lived for the rest of her life. She studied at St. Anne’s College, Oxford and worked in advertising, at the City Library and briefly in publishing before becoming a full-time writer.
