In the late 1920s Laura Riding's poems and essays catapulted her to the front line of modernism. Like other poets beginning their careers after World War I, Riding distrusted the rhetoric and rules of traditional literature and refused to follow...

The life and career of poet Laura Riding is profiled. Riding worked between 1926 and 1939, when she at the age of 40 was married and stopped writing poetry. She also wrote novels, short stories, and literary criticism. She was born in New York,...

IN THE LITERARY WORLD, Laura Riding is famous for two things: living with Robert Graves and renouncing poetry at the height of her highly respected career. In 1938, Riding, at the age of 37, published her Collected Poems and wrote virtually no more...

In the following essay, Carson explores the major thematic concerns of Riding's poetry, focusing on different forms of the contract—such as the covenant, guarantee, or promise.

In the following essay, Riding reflects on the role of poetry in her life as well as her perspective on twentieth-century literature and literary thought.

In the following essay, Heuving explores the relationship between Riding's poetics and her gender critiques and addresses the poet's place in literary history.