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.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.