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Laura Riding Jackson ( 1901- 1991) was a United States poet, novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was born Laura Reichenthal in New York to a family of Austrian immigrants, and educated at Cornell University, where she began to write poetry. She was associated at this point with the Fugitives and shared much of their poetic (and political) credo. Her first marriage, to Louis Gottschalt, ended in divorce in 1925, at which point she went to live in Europe where she would remain for many years. Her first collection of poetry, The Close Chaplet, was published in 1926, and it was at this point that she assumed the surname Riding. By this time her poetry had become much more original: generally abandoning traditional metres for a highly unconventional form of free verse. Shortly afterwards she met Robert Graves in London, and persuaded him to live with her in Mediterranean exile (it is generally agreed that it was Riding who was the major cause of the break up of Grave's first marriage: the whole affair caused a famous literary scandal). After Grave and Riding moved to MajorcaMajorca Mallorca in Catalan and Spanish the spelling "Mallorca" is also frequently encountered in present-day English from Latin insula maior later Maiorica "major island") is one of the Balearic Islands Illes Balears Catalan official name), which are loc they became highly productive, setting up a publishing house (The Seizin PressThe Seizin Press was a small press, founded in 1927 by Laura Riding and Robert Graves in London. From 1930 to 1937 it operated out of Majorca. Besides work by Graves and Riding, it published Gertrude Stein, Len Lye and James Reeves. It ceased on the outbr) running a literary magazine (Epilogue), collaborating on A Survey of Modernist Poetry ( 1927Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 See also 1927 in aviation 1927 in film 1927 in literature 1927 in mu) (which some believe inaugurated the New CriticismNew Criticism was the dominant trend in English and American literary criticism of the early twentieth century, from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Its adherents were emphatic in their advocacy of close reading and attention to texts themselves, and their) and other works, whilst both of them continued to write many volumes of major poetry. Eventually, they parted (highly acrimoniously) and she married Schuyler B. Jackson in 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St. Riding began by taking a neo- Platonic view of poetry, in that she viewed poetry as the conduit for metaphysical truths. She was also highly influenced by neo- Romantic views of the poet as being the 'unacknowledged legislator of the world', a sort of secular prophet. After World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough she lost her faith in poetry, however, and 'renounced' it, choosing to concentrate on her linguistics influenced philosophy. This was a famous decision, and in some ways indicative of the renunciation of Platonism and Metaphysics after World War II that goes by the name of Post-Modernism. Therefore, her Collected Poems is one of the key Modernist texts. Progress of Stories is probably her best prose work.
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