Elizabeth Jennings

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Elizabeth Jennings 1926–2001
1926Born

Elizabeth Joan Jennings (July 18, 1926 - October 26, 2001) was an English poet, noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach. Her Roman Catholicism coloured much of her work. She always made it clear that, whilst her life, which includes a spell of severe mental illness, contributed to the themes contained within her work, she did not write explicitly autobiographical poetry.

She is not generally regarded as an innovator. Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme that she shares with Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Thom Gunn, all members of the group of English poets known as The Movement.

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  1. On Absence

    “I kept remembering this poem after my ex-boyfriend left my city to go back to his home in another country. I realized I could not live in my city anymore as every place I went to reminded me of the times we spent together. So I finally found a way to leave my city, even my country to learn to let…”

  2. On One Flesh

    “This poem is so deep. The daughter's pain shows when she describes the way they rarely touch and when they do its only to sore of apologize for their faults. They may act so distant from each other when they are together but all those years being together has taught them to show their love and…”

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