The Collected Poems [Paperback]

A new and definitive edition of the poetry by one of the best-loved and most enduringly popular modern poets, this collection includes almost all of Elizabeth Jennings’ published work and a large selection of her unpublished pieces as well as resources detailing her poetry, prose, essays, plays, and correspondence. Illuminating the religious faith at the heart of her poetry, this comprehensive collection celebrates Jennings’ accomplishments and exposes them to a new community of readers.

Elizabeth Jenningswas a poet and the author of numerous books, includingFamiliar Sprits,In the Meantime,A Poet’s Choice, andSelected Poems. She is the recipient of a Somerset Maugham Award and the W. H. Smith Award.Emma Masonis a senior lecturer in the department of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick in the UK. She is the author ofThe Cambridge Introduction to Wordsworth,Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature, andWomen Poets of the Nineteenth Century, and the coeditor ofThe Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English LiteratureandThe Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible.Definitive edition of Jennings's poetry.