Somerset Maugham Award
1 appearances
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Edition 0 (1956) Winner
Elizabeth Jennings
エリザベス・ジェニングズ
Erizabesu Jenninguzu
Aliases:
Elizabeth Joan Jennings
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1926-07-18 （Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire, England）
- Died
- 2001-10-26 （Bampton, Oxfordshire, England） age 75
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Roman Catholicism
- Residence History
- Oxford
Career
- Occupations
- Poet
- Active Years
- 1953-2001
- Influenced By
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, Robert Graves, Edwin Muir
- Influenced
- Philip Larkin
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Anne's College, Oxford | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
St Anne's College, Oxford
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Somerset Maugham Award | A Way of Looking | — | Somerset Maugham Award | 受賞 |
| 1953 | Arts Council of Great Britain Prize | Poems | — | Arts Council of Great Britain | 受賞 |
| 1966 | Richard Hillary Memorial Prize | The Mind has Mountains | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1987 | W.H. Smith Literary Award | Collected Poems 1953–1985 | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1992 | Commander of the Order of the British Empire | — | — | — | 受賞 |
Somerset Maugham Award
1955
Work:
A Way of Looking
Organization:
Somerset Maugham Award
Result:
受賞
Arts Council of Great Britain Prize
1953
Work:
Poems
Organization:
Arts Council of Great Britain
Result:
受賞
Richard Hillary Memorial Prize
1966
Work:
The Mind has Mountains
Result:
受賞
W.H. Smith Literary Award
1987
Work:
Collected Poems 1953–1985
Result:
受賞
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1992
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
A Way of Looking
1955 Poetry collectionHer second poetry collection.
ReligionNature
Bibliography
- Poems (1953)
- A Way of Looking (1955)
- A Sense of the World (1958)
- Song For a Birth or a Death (1961)
- The Mind has Mountains (1966)
- Collected Poems 1953-1985 (1986)
- New Collected Poems (2001)
Translations by Author
- The Sonnets of Michelangelo (1961)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- TraditionalistLyric poetryMastery of form
- Recurring Motifs
- Roman CatholicismMental illnessSimplicity of everyday life
Health
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Mental illness晩年Affected her work and reputation.
Legacy
One of the finest British poets of the second half of the twentieth century and England's best Catholic poet since Hopkins.
Archives
- Burns Library, Boston College
- University of Delaware
- Georgetown University
In Popular Culture
- Biography 'Elizabeth Jennings: The Inward War' published (2018).
Quotes
-
It was a yellow voice, a high, shrill treble in the nursery.
Source: A Bird in the House, Collected Poems (1987) (1987)
Trivia
- At her 1992 honors by the Queen, she wore a knitted hat, duffle coat, and canvas shoes, mocked by tabloids as 'the bag-lady of the sonnets'.