The year after LR
's death, posthumous publication of her work began with First Awakenings: The Early Poems of Laura Riding, edited by Elizabeth Friedmann
, Alan J. Clark
, and Robert Nye
.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Reception
Eva Figes
Reviewers praised the book, though some, like Monica Foot
in Books and Bookmen, noted its difficulty. Foot called it memorable, finely and powerfully written. The Times Literary Supplement praised its tight structure and biting...
Reception
Laura Riding
This broadcast brought a notable poetic response. Sylvia Plath
wrote a poem, Little Fugue, which she annotated, on listening to Laura Riding.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Robert Nye
soon afterwards sent a copy of his first publication...
Reception
Penelope Shuttle
The year after this PS
shared the £6,000 Cholmondeley Award with Judith Kazantzis
and Robert Nye
(getting £2,000 each).
Literary responses
Elaine Feinstein
This novel won the Daisy Miller Prize.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
It met with a very warm reception from reviewers, though some references to its being the work of a poet were ambivalent. Robert Nye
in The Guardian called...
Literary responses
Julia O'Faolain
This novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Hermione Lee
praised it in the Observer for presenting the inter-relationship between family and national history, while Robert Nye
in the Guardian called it one of the...
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Texts
Riding, Laura. First Awakenings. Editors Friedmann, Elizabeth et al., Persea Books, 1992.
Jennings, Elizabeth et al. “Letter to the Editor: Human Image Debased”. Times, p. 13.