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Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1901-01-16 - 1991-09-02

biographical statement

Laura Jackson was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.

Found in 910 Collections and/or Records:

"Ahead and Around" and "On the Easy Poem: For One Who Will Sing", 1978-04-18, 1925-08, 1926-03

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1976.004.2.6.013
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.

Dates: 1978-04-18; 1925-08; 1926-03

"Ahead and Around" by Laura Riding Gottschalk from "Guardian: A Literary Monthly", 1925-08

 Item — Box 10, Folder: 7
Identifier: 1976.004.10.7.005
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.

Dates: 1925-08

Airmail Letter from Chas. J. Sawyer to Ellsworth Mason, 1974-04-08

 Item — Box 10, Folder: 9
Identifier: 1976.004.10.9.015
Scope and Contents

"We are very glad to say that we have recently acquired a copy of "The Life of the Dead" by Laura Riding, in the limited edition published by Arthur Barker, and signed both by her and John Aldridge who illustrated it."

Dates: 1974-04-08

All The Time, unknown

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: 2020.063.1.2.043
Scope and Contents

"By after long apperance / Appears the time that all the time..."

Dates: unknown

All Things, unknown

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: 2020.063.1.3.006
Scope and Contents

"All things that wake enjoy the sun-- / All things but one--..."

Dates: unknown

An Ageless Brow, unknown

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: 2020.063.1.2.004
Scope and Contents

"This resolve: with trouble's brow / To forswear trouble and keep..."

Dates: unknown

"An ambition beyond poetry" in The Times Literary Supplement, 1973-02-09

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: 1976.004.1.18.001
Scope and Contents "...However, once Keats had declared "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty", seeming to affirm an indissoluble unity, it was inevitable that sooner or later there would appear a poet who, having believed in Keat's assurance, would find that it didn't square with experience, and would be honest enough to say so. Laura Riding was that poet. She let it be known, in the years after her Collected Poems of 1938, that on these grounds she had abandoned poetry as inadequate to her ambitions and her...
Dates: 1973-02-09

And A Day, unknown

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: 2020.063.1.3.009
Scope and Contents

"The course of a day is never steady. / The hours experiment with pain and pleasure..."

Dates: unknown

And I, unknown

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: 2020.063.1.3.003

"And what of [A.R.] Ammons?", 1977-06

 Item — Box 10, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1976.004.10.6.007
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.

Dates: 1977-06

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Archival Object 906
Collection 4
 
Subject
Authors, American -- 20th century 2
Authors, American -- Correspondence -- 20th century 1
Authors, American -- France -- Paris -- 20th century 1
Authors, English -- 20th century 1
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence 1