Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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
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 |
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 |
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 |
Cultural formation | Laura Riding | As an American living in England in 1928 she was said by an American friend, Polly Antell
, to have become very English, Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 113 |
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),... |
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
,... |
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