Jennings, Elizabeth Joan (1926–2001)
Jennings, Elizabeth Joan (1926–2001)
British poet. Born Elizabeth Joan Jennings, July 18, 1926, in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died Oct 26, 2001, in Bampton, Oxford, England; dau. of Henry Cecil Jennings.
Devout Roman Catholic, read English at St. Anne's College, Oxford; works include A Way of Looking: Poems (1955), Every Changing Shape (1961), Recoveries: Poems (1964), The Mind Has Mountains (1966), The Secret Brother and Other Poems for Children (1966), Hurt (1970), Growing Points: New Poems (1975), Winter Wind (1979), Collected Poems, 1953–1985 (1986), and In the Meantime (1997); translated The Sonnets of Michelangelo (1961) which remains the definitive translation.
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FURT… Edmund Waller , Waller, Edmund
BORN: 1606, Coleshill, Hertfordshire, England
DIED: 1687, Beaconsfield, England
NATIONALITY: British
GENRE: Poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
“The S… George Herbert , Herbert, George
BORN: 1593, Montgomery, Wales
DIED: 1633, Bremerton, England
NATIONALITY: British
GENRE: Poetry, nonfiction
MAJOR WORKS:
Memoriae mat… Rime , Rime
THE LITERARY WORK
A collection of 311 poems set in Italy between 1548 and 1553; published in Italian (as Rime di Madonna Gaspara Stampa) in 1554…
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