Although her work received mixed reviews, MB
was generally recognized as an important if eccentric literary figure during her lifetime, and she was highly praised by other modernist writers, including Ezra Pound
, Marianne Moore
Literary responses
Angela Carter
Tom Paulin
's notice in the London Review of Books rejoiced in Carter's direct, super-real intelligence and grace. For him she was the laureate of de-industrialised England and the hedonistic egalitarianism of her prose—like Ashbery
Reception
Laura Riding
The rediscovery of LR
might be said to have begun while Riding was still young, with the American writer Sonia Raiziss
, who wrote about her first in Contemporary Poetry in 1946, then in two...