Download or read book Selected Poems of Elizabeth Jennings written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the poet's own distillation of the two decades of her writing - the poems which established her as one of the passionate and precise of our writers, a woman of human values, religious vision and natural sympathy.
Download or read book New Collected Poems written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Selected Poems written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by Carcanet Classics. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001) is one of the twentieth century's best-loved and bestselling poets. As the author and editor of almost fifty books of poetry, criticism and theology, she received numerous awards, including the W.H. Smith Prize for her 1986 Collected Poems. This New Selected Poems comes forty years on from her first Carcanet Selected, which it honours by retaining her original choices while adding a substantial number of poems from her several later collections. Edited by Rebecca Watts, whose debut poetry collection was shortlisted for the 2017 Seamus Heaney Prize, this book is a new take on a poet whose human sympathy and religious faith are transferable and timeless.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by Carcanet. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected Poems draws on all the books Elizabeth Jennings published before Growing-Points. It represents the poet's own distillation of the first two decades of her writing - the poems which established her as one of the most passionate and precise of our writers, a woman of humane values, religious vision and natural sympathy. 'The outstanding thing about Jennings's poetry,' wrote Douglass Dunn, 'is its wisdom, hard-earned from grief and religious faith.' And Peter Levi says, 'She is one of the few living poets we could not do without.'
Download or read book A History of Twentieth Century British Women s Poetry written by Jane Dowson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book A Spell of Words written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by Pan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Collected Poems written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by Carcanet. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 1719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Poems is a new and definitive edition of the poetry of one of the best-loved and most enduringly popular modern poets. Almost all of Jennings' published poetry (including work never before collected) and a large selection of her unpublished poems are included here, together with resources detailing her poetry, prose, essays, plays and correspondence. An afterword draws on her unpublished autobiography As I Am and her unpublished theological prose to illuminate the religious faith at the heart of her poetry. Two previously unseen photographs of Jennings and reproductions of two of her little-known picture poems complete the volume. Emma Mason, Reader at the University of Warwick who has written extensively on religion and poetry, suggests that Jennings' achievement is her ability to translate the intensity and happiness of her Christian faith into a canon of accessible poems that reach out to a community of readers'. The Collected Poems enables Jennings' poetry to speak to a new community of readers.
Download or read book Denise Levertov written by Dana Greene and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Rexroth called Denise Levertov (1923–1997) "the most subtly skillful poet of her generation, the most profound, . . . and the most moving." Author of twenty-four volumes of poetry, four books of essays, and several translations, Levertov became a lauded and honored poet. Born in England, she published her first book of poems at age twenty-three, but it was not until she married and came to the United States in 1948 that she found her poetic voice, helped by the likes of William Carlos Williams, Robert Duncan, and Robert Creeley. Shortly before her death in 1997, the woman who claimed no country as home was nominated to be America's poet laureate. Levertov was the quintessential romantic. She wanted to live vividly, intensely, passionately, and on a grand scale. She wanted the persistence of Cézanne and the depth and generosity of Rilke. Once she acclimated herself to America, the dreamy lyric poetry of her early years gave way to the joy and wonder of ordinary life. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, her poems began to engage the issues of her times. Vehement and strident, her poetry of protest was both acclaimed and criticized. The end of both the Vietnam War and her marriage left her mentally fatigued and emotionally fragile, but gradually, over the span of a decade, she emerged with new energy. The crystalline and luminous poetry of her last years stands as final witness to a lifetime of searching for the mystery embedded in life itself. Through all the vagaries of life and art, her response was that of a "primary wonder." In this illuminating biography, Dana Greene examines Levertov's interviews, essays, and self-revelatory poetry to discern the conflict and torment she both endured and created in her attempts to deal with her own psyche, her relationships with family, friends, lovers, colleagues, and the times in which she lived. Denise Levertov: A Poet's Life is the first complete biography of Levertov, a woman who claimed she did not want a biography, insisting that it was her work that she hoped would endure. And yet she confessed that her poetry in its various forms--lyric, political, natural, and religious--derived from her life experience. Although a substantial body of criticism has established Levertov as a major poet of the later twentieth century, this volume represents the first attempt to set her poetry within the framework of her often tumultuous life.
Download or read book A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry 1960 2015 written by Wolfgang Gortschacher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.
Download or read book Growing points written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by Cheadle : Carcanet New Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pocket Poems written by Paul B. Janeczko and published by New York : Bradbury Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of 120 short modern poems by eighty American poets, including Angelou, Updike, Creeley, Williams, and Merwin, in pocket-sized format for travelers and others on the move.
Download or read book 30 Poems to Memorize Before It s Too Late written by David Kern and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of poems with accompanying essays to help poetry lovers memorize some of the greatest verse ever written.
Download or read book Elizabeth Jennings and the Sacramental Nature of Poetry written by Anna Walczuk and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an extensive monographic study of Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001), one of the most remarkable poetic voices in England in the second half of the twentieth century. Briefly linked with the poets of "The Movement" in the 1950s, Jennings soon gained her poetic independence and high esteem on the English literary scene. Primarily a prolific lyricist and religious poet, she also published critical prose bespeaking her fascination with the potential of poetry and its capacity to reach out toward transcendence. The monograph takes into consideration a substantial body of Jennings's poems in the attempt to relate them to the poet's Christian beliefs and her profound spiritual experience. It shows how in Jennings's life and creative output the credo of her faith is interwoven with the ars poetica of her craft. The analysis calls attention to Jennings's emphasis on the intrinsic link between poetry and mysticism and her deep-seated conviction of the unique power of poetic language. The book discusses religious inspiration in Jennings's poems and explores her perception of the words of poetry as inextricably linked with the divine word and viewed in the perspective of the Roman Catholic notion of sacrament. Sacramental awareness is not only seen as a conspicuous property of Elizabeth Jennings's religious profile and an attribute of her thinking, but it is also adopted as the principal and indispensable frame of reference for the analytical and critical discourse presented in the book.
Download or read book Familiar Spirits written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The familiar spirits of this new collection are the changing seasons, the good and the unsettling ghosts of the past, and the gracious familiars who console and instruct. The book includes sonnets, lyrics and writing which experiments with longer cadences and with free verse.
Download or read book Extending the Territory written by Elizabeth Jennings and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this large new book, Elizabeth Jennings extends the territory of her art to encompass her Lincolnshire childhood, finding the precise voice for her early wonder, joy and fear.
Download or read book My America written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems evocative of seven geographical regions of the United States, including the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Plains, Mountain, Southwest, and Pacific Coast States.
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry written by Blake Morrison and published by Penguin Uk. This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
