Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991
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:
Photocopy of "Current Literature New Writing" in ENGLISH STUDIES Vol. 54 No.5, 1972
"Serious students of poetry can consider themselves lucky in having made available to them an important and authentic account of a perennial problem: the borderline between poetry and silence. In The Telling..."
Photocopy of "Jackson, Laura (Riding)" from "Contemporary Authors"
Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.
Photocopy of "Jackson, Laura (Riding) from "Twentieth Century Authors"
Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.
Photocopy of Letter from Laura Jackson to Arthur Cohen, Undated
"I, as you see, am still in New Mexico (I told of planning to go there for a month or so in the letter I sent to Mallorca)."
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"I have not yet gone to work on the drafting of new prefatory material for a republishing of my Poems, but I have all the necessary material with me--and have been doing some new writing on the matter of poetry, which makes more to draw from."
Photocopy of Letter from Laura Jackson to Arthur Cohen, 1965-06-26
"...to provide you with information about the possibilities of new unpublished work of mine, that might be of interest to you and your editorial associates, and to give you my views on the matter of the republication of earlier work of mine."
Photocopy of Letter from Laura Jackson to Arthur Cohen, 1966-02-13
Photocopy of Letter from Laura Jackson to Arthur Cohen, 1966-02-14
"Your letter to which I am here replying occasions for me but two references to matter contained in my letter of yesterday. 1) You make no mention of the typescript-text of the preface I submitted."
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"2) Perhaps what I wrote yesterday on the matter of a preface by myself as distnguished from a prefatory note will clarify my attitude to an introduction by some person (other than myself) better than anything previously written by me:..."
Photocopy of Letter from Laura Jackson to Arthur Cohen, 1966-03-07
Photocopy of Letter from Laura Jackson to Arthur Cohen, 1966-03-10
"I regard Mr. Burnshaw's sending the letter to you to return to me as identical in quality with other pettily devious behavior-manifestations of his I have had to witness, having an edge that he mistakenly thinks to be ironical."
Photocopy of Letter from Laura Jackson to Stanley Burnshaw, 1966-02-28
"I write so from a sense of duty...; and duty to all others--no one ought to let another who has behaved with the sly arrogance with which you have behaved to me go forth again to other human encounters without attempting to impress upon him that the inner springs of his behavior are not totally invisible..."
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"And so you make an ignorant mess of my preface. I'll tip you off as to just how badly you can mess it up."
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- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939. 1
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- Times Literary Supplement (London, England) 1 + ∧ less