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 906 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from [Laura Jackson] to The Editor of The Washington and Lee University Review, Spring 1967
Letter from [Laura Jackson] to The Editor of Time Magazine, 1971-03-18
"I am sending you a letter for publication (it being judged suitable for publication by you) on a certain condition, which I hope you will respect. The letter, here attached, was prompted by Mr. Melvin Maddocks' article on language, which is a subject of serious concern for myself."
Letter from [Laura Jackson] to The Editor of Time Magazine, 1971-03-18
"Mr. Melvin Maddocks, deploring, in your issue of March 8th, under the title of The Limitations of Language, what people do to language, and do to one another with it, himself supplies illustration of that which he deplores. The title is the major example of this. His complaint is not that people are suffering from limitations inherent in language, but that they inflict abuses of it on one another."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Vicki Stark, 1974-03-17
"I am pleased with my check, indeed, and I am at the same time pleased with your being satisfied with it all."
Letter from Laura [Laura Jackson] to Catherine D. Slone, 1969
"May the year have gone well for you...It has been a hard one for me to manage, in my region of experience. But I have kept mainly steady in my going on."
Letter from Laura [Laura Jackson] to Catherine D. Slone, 1970-12-09
"I am simplifying my holiday exertions to little letters this year to those of constant prescence to us in year's end thought..."
Letter from Laura [Laura Jackson] to Catherine D. Slone, 1972-01-4
"And to tell in the latter connection that I was moved to think of Schuyler's daughter Maria who has had active interest in dancing (at a time going classes in it), and in teaching the young -"
Letter from Laura [Laura Jackson] to Catherine D. Slone, 1972-12-08
"It's hard for me to sum this year - there has been much difficulty in it, much work-"
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"I have not yet finished my work on language. A small work of mine was published this fall in England, and will be published in this country in the spring. It has been important for both Schuyler and me, but there is other work owed from the quarter."
Letter from Laura [Laura Jackson] to Catherine D. Slone, 1973-01-03
"Your Christmas time word brought you close: it was a visit. Yes, what to do is a question one must be asking and answering at the same time. There is a spirit in this that can bring this and that and the other doing into one sense, join the answers into one answer."
Letter from Laura [Laura Jackson] to Catherine D. Slone, 1973-12-11
"Here, Beauty is a threatened commodity. I am fortunate in this place (of ours) set apart, though in the little town's midst - but it being local road & U.S. Highway II,..."
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"Two books that were published in England have been published here in the autumn, one a little Selected Poems (Norten), the other a new writing of mine..."
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