Elizabeth Jennings has been accused at times of quietness, if not tameness, but it would be grossly unfair to accuse the poet of The Animals' Arrival of any such thing. Like Abse's recent poems, if these are not shrill, they are bravely concerned with harrowing experience and a still more harrowing vision of it…. (p. 110)

Seeing disorder within and without, Elizabeth Jennings seeks courageously for order. In such poems as A Pattern, she achieves it at least in the high standard of her own art. But where order is not to be had outside her poetry she admits it. (p. 111)

Michael Mott, "Recent Developments in British Poetry," in Poetry (© 1971 by The Modern Poetry Association; reprinted by permission of the Editor of Poetry), Vol. CXVIII, No. 2, May, 1971, pp. 102-14.∗