James Reeves-Laura (Riding) Jackson correspondence, 1933-1940.

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James Reeves-Laura (Riding) Jackson correspondence, 1933-1940.

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Letters, mostly written by Laura (Riding) Jackson to James Reeves, concerning collaborative literary projects, the magazine The Vulgate (Epilogue), and a literary group formed in Majorca (Spain) in the 1930s. In her letters, Laura (Riding) Jackson provides lengthy and detailed criticism of James Reeves' poetry.

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Reeves, James

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Riding, Laura, 1901-1991

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Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) spent her life in pursuit of truth through poetry and her language work. At the beginning of her career, she associated with the Fugitives, a group of Southern poets and critics, who supported and encouraged her poetry; later she became a close collaborator and intimate of the British poet Robert Graves. But her desire to express absolute truth led her to renounce poetry and turn instead to the study of language. Because of her compulsive individualism, Laura b...