Poetry Publications
  • 1953 Poems Oxford: Fantasy Press
  • 1955 A Way of Looking London: Andre Deutsch
  • 1958 A Sense of the World London: Andre Deutsch
  • 1961 Song for a Birth or a Death London: Andre Deutsch
  • 1961 The Sonnets of Michelangelo (translated by Jennings) London: Folio Society
  • 1964 Recoveries London: Andre Deutsch
  • 1966 The Mind Has Mountains London: Macmillan
  • 1966 The Secret Brother and other poems for children (London: Macmillan/New York: St Martin’s Press, 1966
  • 1967 Collected Poems London: Macmillan
  • 1969 The Animals’ Arrival London: Macmillan
  • 1970 Lucidities London: Macmillan
  • 1972 Relationships London: Macmillan
  • 1975 Growing Points Cheadle: Carcanet
  • 1977 Consequently I Rejoice Cheadle: Carcanet
  • 1978 After the Ark Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • 1979 Selected Poems Cheadle: Carcanet
  • 1980 Moments of Grace Manchester: Carcanet
  • 1982 Celebrations and Elegies Manchester: Carcanet
  • 1985 Extending the Territory Manchester: Carcanet
  • 1986 Collected Poems: 1953–85 Manchester: Carcanet
  • 1989 Tributes Manchester: Carcanet
  • 1992 Times and Seasons Manchester: Carcanet
  • 1994 Familiar Spirits Manchester: Carcanet
  • 1996 In the Meantime Manchester: Carcanet
  • 1997 A Spell of Words: Selected Poems for Children London: Macmillan
  • 1998 Praises Manchester: Carcanet
  • 2002 New Collected Poems Manchester: Carcanet
  • 2010 Collected works of Elizabeth Jennings, ed. Emma Mason, Manchester: Carcanet
The Poetry Quartets 5, Audio cassette, The British Council/Bloodaxe Books, 1999.
Penguin Modern Poets 1: Lawrence Durrell, Elizabeth Jennings, R.S. Thomas (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962)
Author page

 

 

Poetry Selections and Anthologies edited by Elizabeth Jennings
  • A Poet’s Choice, Manchester: Carcanet, 1996
  • A Choice of Christian Rossetti’s Verse, London: Faber, 1970
  • An Anthology of Modern Verse: 1940-60, London: Methuen & co., 1961
  • Christianity and Poetry, London: Burns and Oates, 1965
  • The Batsford Book of Children’s Verse [With illustrations], London: Batsford 1958
  • The Batsford Book of Religious Verse, London: Batsford, 1981
  • Wuthering Heights and selected poems by Emily Bronte, London: Pan Books, 1967

 

 

Poetry Criticism
  • Christianity and Poetry, London: Burns and Oates, 1965
  • ‘Emily Dickinson and the Poetry of the Inner Life’, Review of English Literature 3.2. (April 1962), pp. 78-87
  • Every Changing Shape - London: Deutsch, 1961; Manchester, Carcanet 1996
  • Frost [Robert Frost], Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1964
  • Let’s Have Some Poetry!, London: Museum Press, 1960
  • ‘Poetry and Mysticism: on re-reading Bremond’, Dublin Review 234 (1960), pp. 84-91
  • Poetry To-day (British Council and National British League), London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1961
  • Reaching into Silence: a study of eight twentieth-century Visionaries, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1974
  • Seven Men of Vision: an appreciation, London: Visa Press, 1976
  • ‘The Difficult Balance’, London Magazine 6.9 (1959), pp. 27-30
  • ‘The Restoration of Symbols: The Poetry of David Gascoyne’, Twentieth Century 165 (June 1959), pp. 567-77
  • ‘The State of Poetry’, Agenda 27/3 (Autumn 1989), pp. 40-1
  • ‘The Unity of Incarnation: a study of Gerard Manley Hopkins’, Dublin Review 234 (1960), pp. 170-84

Radio Programmes include:
  • ‘Three Women Poets’, produced by George Macbeth (22 Aug. 1971) R3 transmission 18.50-19.05 (Transcript, Brotherton Library)

 

 

Interviews with Elizabeth Jennings
  • With Professor E. A. Sturzl, Oxford, 25 Feb 1982. Acumen 1 (1985), 8-16
  • With Sinéad Garrigan, Oxford Poetry VI. 3 (1992), 103-7
  • With Gerlinde Gramang, Oxford, 26 August, 1993. Printed in Gramang, Elizabeth Jennings, Edwin Mellor Press, 1994. Appendix ix, pp. 93-101 - Broadcast
  • Hear her read: London Poetry Archive - Broadcast
  • BBC radio programmes that include her work - Search the archive

 

 

Critical Works that include Elizabeth Jennings
  • Bissett, William, ‘Elizabeth Jennings’, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 27: Poets of Great Britain and Ireland 1945-60, ed. Vincent B. Sherry Jr, Detroit: Gale Research, 1984, pp. 163-70
  • Blackburn, Thomas, The Price of an Eye, London: Longmans, 1961
  • Booth, Martin, British Poetry 1964-84: Driving through the barricades, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985
  • Brodkorb, Mary, The Poetry and Poetics of Elizabeth Jennings (Ph.D thesis), University of New Brunswick, 1993
  • Buxton, Rachel and Emma Mason, Introduction to Elizabeth Jennings, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010
  • Dowson, Jane, ‘Towards a New Confessionalism: Elizabeth Jennings and Sylvia Plath’ in Dowson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to British and Irish Women’s Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
  • Gramang, Gerlilnde, Elizabeth Jennings, Edwin Mellor Press, 1994
  • Holloway, John, ‘The literary Scene’, in The Pelican Guide to English Literature 7: The Modern Age, ed Boris Ford, London: Penguin, 1976
  • Jones, P and M Schmidt, eds. British Poetry since 1970, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1980
  • Perkins, David, A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1987
  • Press, John, Trends in British Poetry since the Second World War, London: Oxford University Press, 1963
  • Rosenthal, M.L, Our Life in Poetry: Selected Essays and Reviews, New York: Persea Books, 1991
  • Rosenthal, M.L, The New Poets: American and British Poetry since World War II, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
  • Schmidt, Michael and Grevel Lindop, British Poetry since 1960, Manchester: Carcanet, 1972
  • Smith, Lucie, ed. British Poetry since 1945, London: Penguin, 1970
  • Sturzl, E. A., ‘Here is a humility at one with craft: the thematic content of the poetry of Elizabeth Jennings’, Salzburg Studies in English Literature 27:5 (1983), pp. 63-96
  • Wain, John, ‘Green Fingers: to Elizabeth Jennings in Oxford’, Letters to Five Artists, London: Macmillan, 1969, pp. 49-55
  • Poetry Book Society Bulletin, 1961

 

 

Web links
  • Edward Levy, ‘The Poetry of Elizabeth Jennings.’ Poetry Nation 5 (1975), 62-74 - Link
  • ‘Elizabeth Jennings: An exile in her own country?’, Literature and Theology (April 2007) - Link
  • Barry Sloan, ‘Poetry and faith: the example of Elizabeth Jennings’, Christianity and Literature 55. 3 (Spring, 2006), pp. 393-414 - Link
  • Gordon S Wakefield, ‘God and Some English Poets: 15 Elizabeth Jennings’, The Expository Times, 109. 1 (1997), 10-14 - Link
  • The Poetry Archive - Link

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Teaching Resources
  • Commentary on ‘In a Garden’, ‘Hatching’ and other poems - Link
  • ‘Jennings, Elizabeth – Introduction’, Contemporary Literary Criticism, ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter, vol. 135, Gale Cengage, 2001 - Link