Poet elizabeth jennings biography of albert
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Elizabeth Jennings (poet)
British poet (1926–2001)
"Elizabeth Joan Jennings" redirects here. Not to be confused with Elizabeth Jean Jennings or Elizabeth Jennings.
Elizabeth Joan JenningsCBE (18 July 1926 – 26 October 2001)[1] was a British poet.
Life and Career
Elizabeth Jennings was born at The Bungalow, Tower Road, Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire, younger daughter of physician Henry Cecil Jennings (1893–1967), MA, BSc (Oxon.), MB BS (Lond.), DPH, medical officer of health for Oxfordshire, and (Helen) Mary, née Turner.[2][3] When she was seven, her family moved to Oxford, where she remained for the rest of her life.[4] There she later attended St Anne's College.
After graduation, she became a writer.[5]
It was a yellow voice, a high, shrill treble in the nursery
White always and high, I remember it so,
White cupboard, off-white table, mugs, dolls' faces
And I was four or five.The garden could have been
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