Elizabeth Jennings: 'The Inward War'

ISBN-13: 9780198820840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Dana Greene

Opis

Elizabeth Jennings was one of the most popular lyric poets in the second half of the twentieth century. This first biography, based on extensive archival research and interviews with Jennings's contemporaries, integrates her life and work and explores the 'inward war' the poet experienced as a result of her gender, religion, and mental fragility.

Recenzje

This excellent biography coonets Jennings's work to the many important historical, political, and aesthetic concerns of the age. Recommended. B. Wallenstein, CHOICE

O autorze

Dana Greene is Dean Emerita of Oxford College of Emory University. An historian by training, she served on the faculty of St. Mary's College of Maryland for almost three decades. By craft she is a biographer, author of the lives of Evelyn Underhill, Maisie Ward, and Denise Levertov, and editor of four volumes of works by Evelyn Underhill, Lucretia Mott, and Olympia Brown.