After reading a A.E. Stallings tweet, I picked up a Selected of Jennings (1979). It was either that or the enormous Collected (2012). Gioia strikes me as dead right when he writes that "Her reputation would be larger had she published less" and "There is an urgent need for a new selected volume of her verse." Probably of roughly the same length of the old one. Lots of good stuff, but still some mediocre in the 1979.
The best stuff ranks up there with the best Movement poems, though.
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