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In Praise of Creation

Elizabeth Jennings (18 July 1926- 26 October 2001) Born in the United Kingdom in Boston, Lincolnshire, she moved to Oxford when she was 6 years old and stayed there for the rest of her life. She attended Oxford University as a student in St Anne's College, and started publishing her poetry in local periodicals like Oxford Poetry and British journals such as The Spectator and New English Weekly. She became a librarian at the Oxford City library. At the age of 27, she published her first book, Poems (1953). The next year, her second book was published, A Way of Looking (1954), which won the Somerset Maugham prize and set off her public recognition as a poet. With the prize money, she lived for several months in Rome, which inspired her greatly. She was a Roman Catholic with religious beliefs and imagination, and although she suffered from mental illness at one point in her life, her poetry is recognized for its simplicity of form and its traditionalism, and she was inspired by suc...
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World Poetry

Hello everyone, as we begin to close up the school year, I would like you to look at the following ten poems and decide which two or three you like more than the others . In our small groups, we can then discuss which ones you liked and why. In addition, in the comments section of the blog, you can leave poems that you like or images that you feel link into the poems listed (a painting that you feel evokes the words of a poem etc). Poem One  This poem - William Blake 's The Tyger - can be found on this page . Why do you have to find the poem within a list of the "Ten Greatest Poems"? Because this page exemplifies the idea that so much of what we study in school and uphold in society is written by 'dead, white European men". Their work is fantastic, don't get me wrong (I've dedicated my life to studying and teaching their words). However, sometimes we have to lift our head up off the page and see what else is out there.  Poem Two Ready to s...
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