Life history of elizabeth jennings

Elizabeth Jennings 18 July —26 October was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, the younger daughter of Dr Henry Cecil Jennings, medical officer of health for the county. The family moved to Oxford when she was six. It was here that she found her abilities and started writing.

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During her degree, she attended lectures by such prestigious names as C. Lewis and was particularly influenced by T. The breadth of reading that the course demanded included the Classics, Anglo-Saxon verse and Philosophy. Her first collection of poems was published in and her inclusion in Robert Conquest's New Lines , helped to establish her in the Movement, the grouping of English poets associated with Philip Larkin during the s.

Jennings lends herself to biographical curiosity because her vocation as a poet was inextricably tied up with her inner life. In her vast correspondence and personal notebooks she integrated news about and reflections on her poems, on her literary career, on literary tradition and new writing with accounts of her environment, health, acquaintances and religion, always shifting between anxiety and gratitude.

She is not precise with dates but we can cross-reference some events with particular poems. She confessed shame about her sexual curiosity and was referred to a Jesuit psychologist.