New Carcanet Selected Poetry and Prose of Elizabeth Jennings

伊丽莎白詹宁斯的诗歌和散文的新Carcanet版的目的是提供一个学术和一般读者与她的作品的可靠版本，安排按时间顺序，包括许多未出版的（和看不见的）诗歌从她后期的创造力。詹宁斯仍然是英国和美国最受欢迎的二十世纪女诗人之一，自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，她后来的许多诗歌和散文仍然以未出版的手稿形式存在。我受到詹宁斯的经纪人布鲁斯亨特和以前的编辑兼朋友迈克尔施密特的委托，制作了她作品的这个新版本，并得到了她剩下的家人的支持，收集了她后期的许多未被发现的诗歌。詹宁斯作品的新版本是至关重要的，不仅要满足本科生和研究生市场的需求，越来越多的大学课程和模块，包括她的诗歌入学;也为研究詹宁斯和其他当代女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，詹宁斯的精神和基督教诗歌可能与她在该群体中的同行菲利普·拉金和马丁·艾米斯（Martin Amis）一起不安地坐在一起，例如，在一个主要的世俗框架内写作。结合运动的重点，正式纪律和智力精度与热情，但仍然保留宗教愿景，她的诗歌成为一次沉思和振奋，但也焦虑和沮丧。这个版本将背景詹宁斯的宗教典故，天主教，神秘主义和东方唯灵论，并参考那些诗人，她提请最实质性的：华兹华斯，济慈，霍普金斯，罗伯特弗罗斯特和大卫琼斯。我以前的出版物浪漫主义和宗教和文学和圣经分别，给了我一个坚实的平台上建立这个参考材料的版本;此外，我自己的教学詹宁斯的诗歌，无论是在牛津大学和我目前的位置在沃里克大学，给了我一个清晰的想法学生的需求从一个新的集合。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）新推出詹宁斯，给了我一个论坛，让我开发如何最好地构建一个对二十世纪诗歌和宗教以及文学领域的学者有用和有市场的版本。

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a scholarly and general readership with a reliable edition of her works, arranged chronologically and including many unpublished (and unseen) poems from her later period of creativity.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 Yet there is no scholarly edition of her work available and much of her later poetry and prose remains in unpublished manuscript form.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.