![]() ![]() Jennings later attended Oxford University where she studied English. With the outbreak of war in 1939, she also found a deeper meaning in religion which helped her develop the sensitivity to understand the suffering of those around her. She was soon exploring the likes of Keats and Byron and then began writing her own works. Her father was a medical officer and when Jennings was just 6 years old they moved to Oxford where she discovered poetry for the first time. Her birthplace in Boston, Lincolnshire, with its flat landscape and flowers became an inspiration for her later writings. Although she suffered serious mental illness in the early 60s, she wrote a large number of works over her lifetime and received a CBE in 1992. She is noted amongst a number of poets who were collectively part of The Movement that was devoted to the notion of English poetry and its place in the world. Born in the English county of Lincolnshire in 1926, Elizabeth Jennings was one of the most popular female British poets of the 20th Century. ![]()
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