SOURCE: Review of Song for a Birth or a Death, in Poetry, Vol. CII, No. 5, August, 1963, pp. 330-34.

In the following excerpt, Morse praises the quality and content of Jennings's poetry, arguing that she is gaining authority in her work.

For the poets of the fifties and after, the veterans of the thirties as Donald Davie calls them, were concerned with “agonies” that have become “highbrow thrillers, though historical”, and their feats are “quite strictly fabulous.” “And yet,” he adds, “it may be better, if we must,/ To find the stance impressive and absurd/Than not to see the hero for the dust.” Davie’s own poems do not disguise their admiration for some of the heroes of the thirties, and they may be the better for it. But the young poets whose books are at hand belong not only to another age but to a different world...