Elizabeth Jennings (poet)

We were taken down to the green Asparagus beds, the cut lawn, and the smell of it Comes each summer after rain when white returns.

[4] Her second book, A Way of Looking (155), won the Somerset Maugham Award and marked a turning point, as the prize money allowed her to spend nearly three months in Rome, which was a revelation.

[4] Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Thom Gunn, all members of the 1950s group of English poets known as The Movement.

[4] She always made it clear that, while her life, which included a spell of severe mental illness, contributed to the themes contained within her work, she did not write explicitly autobiographical poetry.

When she was honoured by the queen in 1992, she wore a "knitted hat, duffle coat, and canvas shoes".

She spent the later years of her life in various short-term lodgings and in Unity House (8 St Andrew's Lane) in Old Headington.