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Reception | Anna Wickham | Thanks to Untermeyer and to British poet and anthologist John Gawsworth
, by the 1930s AW
's poetry was widely anthologised, making her often as well represented as respected male poets such as Lawrence
,... |
Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | Beginning her editorship of Wheels, ES
made other friendships, including those with Nancy Cunard
, Nina Hamnett
(whom she describes as generous and courageous), Walter Sickert
(whose generosity and sense of fun she celebrates),... |
Publishing | Laura Riding | |
Residence | Laura Riding | After a visit to Gertrude Stein
and Alice B. Toklas
in the French Alps, LR
and Robert Graves
arrived on the island of Mallorca, where they settled in the village of Deyá in a... |
Textual Features | Laura Riding | In a way this periodical or series was the final form of The Critical Vulgate, since it consisted of essays on many topics by various hands, though Riding had helped extensively with them all.... |
Residence | Laura Riding | Two weeks after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, LR
and Robert Graves
sailed from Palma, Mallorca, on a British destroyer which was evacuating foreigners because of the heavy bombardment. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 284 |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | If LR
's hand is not discernible in The White Goddess it has been discerned elsewhere in work that Graves
published later as his own. Friedmann claims that in his book of critical essays The... |
Residence | Laura Riding | LR
and Robert Graves
sailed into New York from Le Havre, on what was supposed to be a visit, on the Champlain (the boat that had brought Riding to Europe, the Paris, on which... |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | During the summer of emotional turmoil and re-aligned relationships that marked her return to the USA, LR
was by August hard at work again on writing of her own and of Graves
's, on... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Laura Riding | With Robert Graves
, LR
published in LondonA Survey of Modernist Poetry, written at Vienna the previous winter. It was issued through the commercial publishers: Heinemann
and, next year in New York, Doubleday
. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 97 and n32 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Reception | Laura Riding | LR
always maintained she was uninterested in her reputation and would take no steps to assist it—though she did care that the record should be accurate, and to that end she wrote a lengthy article... |
Publishing | Laura Riding | LR
published her second collected volume of poetry: Love as Love, Death as Death, the first production of the Seizin Press
operated in Hammersmith by herself and Robert Graves
, in a limited edition... |
Fictionalization | Laura Riding | Critic Jerome McGann
asserts that LR
, while making no claim to transcendent poetic power, makes poetry out of her own power to rise above her subject. In this he associates her with Felicia Hemans |
Publishing | Laura Riding | LR
and Robert Graves
had agreed with Arthur Barker
that he would advance them £500 a year to publish a series of their works—of which Riding's The Word 'Woman', appeared only posthumously. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 192-3 |
Textual Production | Laura Riding | Robert Graves
published his important study, The White Goddess, A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth; some critics have suggested that in this work LR
was the victim of Graves's thieving mind. Seymour, Miranda. “The Hand from the Grave”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, pp. 191-5. 192 “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 51080 (25 May 1948): 7 |