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:
Letter from Laura Jackson to Burton Feldman, 1974-02-19
"Mr. Katz has changed the homage in the Chelsea contribution to read:..."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-05-21
"At least two things rise up to engage my thought, from what you present in your letter, besides the question that you put to me, and I am giving them priority of attention in this my reply because, in their bearing on research in which a connection between my poetic work and the poetic work of Mr. Auden is pointed to, they have more importance than the source of my quotation in the preface of my Collected Poems. First, as to your words on 'the relation' of my poetry and W.H. Auden's."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-06-16
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-06-20
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-06-23
"I had better complete my attention, for you, to the matter of The Survey of Modernist Poetry. There has appeared a faint possibility of my being able to have it printed with a preface by me - a thing I desire but also greatly ahrink from, hardly perceiving now the time, the energy, can be found for the writing of it (it would be no light task for me)....I have located in my papers a copy of what I put on record with the book in 1964, for preservation at Cornell."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-06-29
"It seems to me that you are conronted in the case of Auden with the necessity of a distinction between the problem of understanding the way in which a poet comes to write in the ways he or she does and the severe responsibility of differentiation between the poet's ways of writing that are of the poet's nature and the ways that are grafte dupon - not the nature, you can't graft upon a nature - but the posture the poet assumes before the public."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-07-19
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-07-31
"...For you do two things in your letter that call for immediate protest from me. In the case of the first, you do me an injustice, attributing to me a position I have not in any letter presented myself as being in, towards you or anyone else. I know something about having erroneous notions about oneself held by others; such notions do a spreading injury to truth, about whomever they are held."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-08-04
"If a person were to accept all that I have said on the failure of poetry he could not without butchering the content of what I said bring into argument a concept of poetry as an operation to approach without high expectations. You must go elsewhere with such argument. Find someone who has not approached poetry with high expectations of it (per its own inherent promise as what has long been with us), and you need not argue at all; that person would have no thought of renouncing poetry."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1971-01-05
"Hence to the little Selected Poems volume. As I read your name, I thought I had perhaps seen it in a literary connection."
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