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Elizabeth Jennings: New Collected Poems (Poetry Pleiade)
Elizabeth Jennings
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Description for Elizabeth Jennings: New Collected Poems (Poetry Pleiade)
Paperback. Elizabeth Jennings listens carefully, through spiritual, emotional and mental turbulence. She has created a body of poetry, using traditional forms with experimental vigour, keeping her spirit attuned to her art and the changes in language which is her medium in every sense. Series: Poetry pleiade. Num Pages: 401 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 31. Weight in Grams: 502. Series: Poetry pleiade. 401 pages. Elizabeth Jennings listens carefully, through spiritual, emotional and mental turbulence. She has created a body of poetry, using traditional forms with experimental vigour, keeping her spirit attuned to her art and the changes in language which is her medium in every sense. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 31. Weight: 494.
Does history tell stories? Yes, if the poet listens carefully. Elizabeth Jennings listens carefully, through spiritual, emotional and mental turbulence. She has created an abidingly popular body of poetry, using traditional forms with experimental vigour, keeping her spirit attuned to her art and language. Her vocation is praise, as a lover praises the things made, the makers and the maker. New Collected Poems incorporates her award winning 1986 Collected Poems, adding from the poems she wrote in the next fifteen years. In that time she found new themes and styles, exploring by means of the verse-essay, the extended ... Read more
Does history tell stories? Yes, if the poet listens carefully. Elizabeth Jennings listens carefully, through spiritual, emotional and mental turbulence. She has created an abidingly popular body of poetry, using traditional forms with experimental vigour, keeping her spirit attuned to her art and language. Her vocation is praise, as a lover praises the things made, the makers and the maker. New Collected Poems incorporates her award winning 1986 Collected Poems, adding from the poems she wrote in the next fifteen years. In that time she found new themes and styles, exploring by means of the verse-essay, the extended ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
401
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Poetry Pleiade
Condition
New
Number of Pages
401
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857545593
SKU
V9781857545593
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Ref
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About Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings, born in Lincolnshire in 1926, has spent most of her life in Oxford. Her first book won a Somerset Maugham Award, and many distinctions followed, among them the W.H. Smith Award (1987) and a C.B.E. Over the last twenty years Carcanet has published many of her books including Selected Poems, Collected Poems, Tributes, Times and Seasons, Familiar Spirits, ... Read more
Reviews for Elizabeth Jennings: New Collected Poems (Poetry Pleiade)
"Some of the finest lyric poetry of the 20th century."
Anne Stevenson, the "Sunday Times"
Anne Stevenson, the "Sunday Times"