Every Changing Shape by Elizabeth Jennings

Every Changing Shape by Elizabeth Jennings

This collection studies writers and mystics, past and present, and considers from a Christian poet's perspective how religious or mystical experience informs the imagination. The text provides readings of Elizabeth Jennings's chosen authors and offers clues to her own poetry. Though her first concern is poetry, she draws on prose writers to effect her explorations. Writers considered include: St Augustine; St Teresa of Avila; George Herbert; T.S. Eliot; Charles Peguy; Simone Weil; Gerald Manley Hopkins; David Gascoyne; Julian of Norwich; St John of the Cross; Henry Vaughan; Thomas Traherne; Rainer Maria Rilke; Edwin Muir; Hart Crane; and Wallace Stevens.

Elizabeth Jennings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1926, and lived most of her life in Oxford, where she moved in 1932. She was educated at Rye St Antony and Oxford High School before reading English at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she began a B.Litt., but left to pursue a career in copy-editing in London. Returning to Oxford to take up a full-time post as a librarian at the city library, Jennings worked briefly at Chatto and Windus before becoming a full-time poet. Her second volume of poetry, A Way of Looking (1955), won the Somerset Maugham Award, which allowed her to travel to Rome, a city which had an immense impact on her poetry and Roman Catholic faith. While she suffered from physical and mental ill health from her early thirties, Jennings was a popular and widely read poet. She received the W.H. Smith award in 1987 for Collected Poems 1953-1985, and in 1992 was awarded a CBE. She died in Rosebank Care Home, Bampton, in 2001 and is buried in Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford. Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk in 1983 and currently lives in Cambridge, where she works in a library and as a freelance writer and editor. Her poems have appeared in a range of publications, including PN Review, The North, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the TLS and New Poetries VI (Carcanet, 2015). Her debut collection, The Met Office Advises Caution, was published by Carcanet in 2016 and was shortlisted for the 2017 Seamus Heaney Prize. Her second collection, Red Gloves, will be published by Carcanet in 2020.

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Titel	Every Changing Shape
Autor	Elizabeth Jennings
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Carcanet Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-08-29
Seitenanzahl	240
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