New Carcanet Selected Poetry and Prose of Elizabeth Jennings

这个新的Carcanet版本的伊丽莎白詹宁斯的诗歌和散文，旨在为学术和普通读者提供一个可靠的版本，她的作品，按时间顺序排列，包括许多未发表的（和看不见的）诗歌，从她的创作后期。詹宁斯是20世纪英国和美国最受欢迎的女诗人之一，自她2001年去世以来，学术界对她的作品越来越感兴趣。然而，她的作品没有学术版本，她后来的许多诗歌和散文仍以未出版的手稿形式存在。我受詹宁斯的经纪人布鲁斯·亨特（Bruce Hunter）和前任编辑兼朋友迈克尔·施密特（Michael Schmidt）的委托，制作她作品的新版本。我还得到了詹宁斯家人的支持，收集了她生前未见过的许多晚期诗歌。詹宁斯作品的新版本至关重要，不仅是为了满足本科生和研究生市场的需求，因为越来越多的大学课程和模块都包含了她的诗歌；也为研究詹宁斯和其他当代女性诗人的学者提供了一个标准版本。作为20世纪早期诗歌集体“运动”的关键成员，詹宁斯的精神诗歌和基督教诗歌与她的同行，例如菲利普·拉金和马丁·艾米斯，在一个主要的世俗框架内写作，可能有些不自在。她的诗歌将运动对正式纪律和知识精确的关注与充满激情但仍然保留的宗教视野相结合，使她的诗歌立刻变得沉思和振奋，但也变得焦虑和沮丧。这一版将把詹宁斯的宗教典故放在天主教、神秘主义和东方唯灵论的背景下，并参考她最重要的诗人：华兹华斯、济慈、霍普金斯、罗伯特·弗罗斯特和大卫·琼斯。我以前分别发表过关于浪漫主义、宗教、文学和圣经的文章，这给了我一个坚实的平台，在这个平台上，我可以把这些参考资料编入这本书；此外，我在牛津大学和目前在华威大学教授詹宁斯诗歌的经历，让我清楚地知道学生们对一本新诗集的需求。此外，我与牛津布鲁克斯诗歌中心主任雷切尔·巴克斯顿（Rachel Buxton）合作，为曼彻斯特大学出版社（Manchester University Press）撰写了一本关于詹宁斯的新介绍，这为我提供了一个论坛，让我能够更好地编写一本对从事20世纪诗歌、宗教和文学研究的学者有用且有市场的版本。

This new Carcanet edition of Elizabeth Jennings' poetry and prose is designed to provide both a scholarly and general readership with a reliable edition of her works, arranged chronologically and including many unpublished (and unseen) poems from her later period of creativity. Jennings remains one of the most popular twentieth-century women poets in Britain and the US and since her death in 2001, academic interest in her work has increased. Yet there is no scholarly edition of her work available and much of her later poetry and prose remains in unpublished manuscript form. I have been commissioned by both Jennings' agent, Bruce Hunter, and previous editor and friend, Michael Schmidt, to produce this new edition of her works and also have the support of her remaining family in collecting much of her late, unseen poetry.A new edition of Jennings' works is vital, not only to meet the needs of an undergraduate and postgraduate market enrolled on the increasing number of university courses and modules that include her poetry; but also to provide scholars working on Jennings and other contemporary women poets a standard edition from which to work. As a key member of the early twentieth-century poetry collective, 'the Movement,' Jennings' spiritual and often Christian poetry sits perhaps uneasily beside her counterparts in the group, Philip Larkin and Martin Amis, for example, writing within a predominantly secular framework. Combining the Movement's focus on formal discipline and intellectual precision with a passionate but still reserved religious vision, her poetry becomes at once meditative and bracing, but also anxious and dejected. This edition will contextualise Jennings' religious allusions to Catholicism, mysticism and eastern spiritualism, and also reference those poets she drew most substantively from: Wordsworth, Keats, Hopkins, Robert Frost and David Jones. My previous publications on Romanticism and religion and literature and the bible respectively, have granted me a solid platform on which to build this reference material into the edition; and in addition, my own teaching of Jennings' poetry, both at the University of Oxford and in my current position at the University of Warwick, has given me a clear idea of what students demand from a new collection. In addition, my collaboration with Rachel Buxton, the Director of the Oxford Brookes Poetry centre, on a new introduction to Jennings for Manchester University Press, has given me a forum in which to develop how best to structure an edition useful for and marketable to scholars working in the fields both of twentieth-century poetry and religion and literature more generally.