The Collected Poems

by Elizabeth Jennings, Emma Mason PhD (Editor)

Overview

A new and definitive edition of the poetry by one of the best-loved and most enduringly popular modern poets, this collection includes almost all of Elizabeth Jennings’ published work and a large selection of her unpublished pieces as well as resources detailing her poetry, prose, essays, plays, and correspondence. Illuminating the religious faith at the heart of her poetry, this comprehensive collection celebrates Jennings’ accomplishments and exposes them to a new community of readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847770684
Publisher:	Carcanet Press, Limited
Publication date:	04/01/2012
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	1100
Sales rank:	459,092
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Jennings was a poet and the author of numerous books, including Familiar Sprits, In the Meantime, A Poet’s Choice, and Selected Poems. She is the recipient of a Somerset Maugham Award and the W. H. Smith Award. Emma Mason is a senior lecturer in the department of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick in the UK. She is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth, Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature, and Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century, and the coeditor of The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature and The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible.

Editorial Reviews

The winner of this year's W. H. Smith Literary Award, this collection of poems is drawn from Jennings's 17 books. PW stated that the poet's ``carefully constructed imagery lends color and substance to reflections on time, nature and death.'' (August)

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