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Riding, Laura (Laura Reichenthal)

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Riding, Laura (Laura Reichenthal) (1901–91), born in New York City, once associated with the group that published The Fugitive, was long expatriated in Mallorca and England before returning to the U.S. (1959) to live in Florida. Her early writings include Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) and other critical works, as well as A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927), one of several collaborations with Robert Graves. Her fiction includes A Trojan Ending (1937), about the Trojan War; Lives of Wives (1939), considering Cyrus, Aristotle, Caesar, and other pre‐Christian figures as husbands; and Progress of Stories (1935), a series of 17 stories, progressively “of Lives …of Ideas …and Nearly True,” and an essay on storytelling. An enlarged edition appeared in 1982. Her early poetry is gathered in Collected Poems (1938). After a long silence she published Selected Poems (England, 1970; U.S., 1973) and The Telling (1975), a philosophic essay. First Awakenings: The Early Poems of Laura Riding (1993) prints hitherto unpublished poems, written between 1920 and 1925. The Word “Woman” and Other Related Writings (1993) collects essays, some previously unpublished. She was married (1941–69) to Schuyler B. Jackson and sometimes published as Laura (Riding) Jackson.

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Riding, Laura

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Riding, Laura (1901–91), American poet and critic, who worked with Robert Graves (1927–39). Her work includes Collected Poems (1938) and Selected Poems (1970); A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927; with Graves) and Contemporaries and Snobs (1928), both critical works; A Trojan Ending (1937), a novel; and Lives of Wives (1939), on various marriages in history.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Riding, Laura." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Riding, Laura." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-RidingLaura.html

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Riding, Laura." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-RidingLaura.html

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	In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding. Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 2/1/1994
	First Awakenings: The Early Poems of Laura Riding. Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 2/1/1994
	Laura Riding: A Modernist Puzzle.(poet) Magazine article from: American Scholar; 1/1/1999