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...
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In the following excerpt, Blackmur discusses Riding's verbal techniques in The Collected Poems.
Nine books of contemporary verse running to over thirteen hundred pages leave one both aghast ...
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In the following review, Fitzgerald praises Riding's The Collected Poems of Laura Riding for its use of language.
Of all the contemporary poems I know, these seem to me the furthest advanced...
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In the following excerpt, Kinzie provides a mixed assessment of The Poems of Laura Riding.
Laura Riding is represented in the Norton because the poems she wrote in the 1920s were admired by the Fug...
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In the following essay, Adams delineates the defining characteristics of Riding's Selected Poems.
I labored, as a poet, to bring the poetic endeavor out from the climate of the mere differen...
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In the following essay, Adams addresses Riding's search for perfection in her poetry and life, and compares her verse to that of Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell.
Laura Riding directed her mai...
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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.
My concern, in my writing on my experience...
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In the following essay, Rosenthal offers a mixed review of Riding's poetry, contending that “her writing is full of promises but preserved, as it were, in ambiguities, ironies, and near-...
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In the following interview, Riding discusses her perspective on literature and literary criticism, her relationship with the Fugitive poets in the early 1920s, and major influences on her work.
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In the following essay, McGann explores the relationship between language, poetry, and truth in Riding's.
I heard poems inhabited by voices.
—Susan Howe, “Thorow”
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In the following essay, Wallace examines the reasons for the critical neglect of Riding's poetry, contending that it stemmed from her insistence on being the ultimate interpretive authority ove...
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In the following essay, Temes discusses Riding's rejection of her poetic voice in 1942, and argues that the “repudiation of her critics links Riding's renunciation of poetry with ...
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In the following review, Heuving offers an overview of Riding's life and work.
In the literary world, Laura Riding is famous for two things: living with Robert Graves and renouncing poetry a...
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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.
Laura ...
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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.
Although Laura (Riding)...
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In the following essay, Paddon contrasts the role of language in the poetry of Riding and Eavan Boland.
I am hands And face And feet And things inside of me That I can't see.
What knows ...
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In the following unfavorable assessment of A Selection of the Poems of Laura Riding, Perloff provides a stylistic and thematic analysis of Riding's poetry.
Rejoice, the witch of truth has pe...
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Laura (Riding) Jackson
Critical Review by R. P. Blackmur
