Buy this book on-line BAKER, DEBORAH: : In Extremis - THE LIFE OF LAURA RIDINGLONDON.HAMISH HAMILTON,1993. ISBN 0802113648.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Very light shelf-wear to top edge dw/dj.
8vo,478pp includes b/w illus,index,notes
and bibliography.
Here is the first major biography of this
century's most important poets and one of the most influential figures in British-American literary history.In her poetry, essays and public statements,Laura Riding
tackled Freud, feminism, communism, language and belief,sensuality and the coming of age of the American dream.In her
personal relationships she was often at the centre of a circle of friends and artists; her associations included writers as diverse as Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Crowley, Allen Tate
and Robert Penn Warren.During a thirteen year relationship with Robert Graves, the two writers produced an astonishing range of work.Together they launched the New Criticism.Laura Riding,who died in 1991 at the age of ninety was the frequent subject of outrageous rumour and intense controversy.She has been portrayed as a meglomaniac, a sexual libertine, a femme fatale, even a witch.In this brilliantly original biography Baker considers Laura Riding in the context of her background, her times and her work and removes the layers of conjecture, bias and sometimes sheer nonsense that have distorted her life,reputation and sense of achievement.
The result is a biography of revelation, reassessment and restoration.
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