In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding

In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding
ISBN-10
0595140416
ISBN-13
9780595140411
Series
In Extremis
Category
Authors, American
Pages
508
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
iUniverse
Author
Deborah Baker

Description

In her poetry, fiction, essays, and public statements, Laura Riding, the author of twenty-three books, tackled feminism, communism, sexuality, Freud, language and belief, and the coming-of-age of the American dream. In her personal relationships she was often at the center of a circle of friends and artists whose activities she inspired and sometimes controlled. Her extraordinary range of associates included writers as diverse as Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. During a long and "scandalous" affair with Robert Graves, she watched over his most productive period and guided much of his best work. Together they launched the New Criticism.

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