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Elinor Jenkins
Remembered as a young British war poet, she wrote with unusual feeling about love, grief, and the emotional cost of World War I. Her poems carry both a personal tenderness and a clear sense of a world changed by conflict.
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Poems
by Elinor Jenkins
About the author
Elinor Jenkins was a British poet born in Bombay, India, on September 3, 1893. She was the daughter of Sir John Lewis Jenkins and Florence Mildred Trevor, and she is generally identified as a war poet whose writing was shaped by the years of the First World War.
Her published work includes Poems (1916), and her surviving poems show a voice drawn to themes of loss, remembrance, and the strain war placed on ordinary human feeling. Even when writing about public events, she often kept her focus intimate and emotional, which gives her work a quiet immediacy.
Jenkins died young in 1920, and that short life gives her small body of work an added poignancy. Though she is not as widely known as some other First World War poets, her poetry still stands out for its sincerity and its deeply felt response to grief and conflict.