A Selection of the Poems of Laura Riding

by Jackson, Laura (Riding); Nye, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780892552214
• ISBN10: 0892552212
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-17
• Publisher: PERSEA

Summary

Laura Riding is considered one of the America's greatest twentieth-century poets. Robert Nye's collection of her poems is the only selection to draw from the full range of Riding's poetic work, including from her last-published book.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Robert Nye
Dimensions	9	(1)
Ceremonial	10	(1)
Conclusion	11	(1)
The Sweet Ascetic	12	(1)
To a Proud Lover	13	(2)
An Ancient Revisits	15	(1)
Angelica	16	(2)
Another Apple	18	(1)
Lady of All Creation	19	(1)
Named	20	(1)
Summons	21	(1)
To a Cautious Friend	22	(1)
Dallydilbaree	23	(2)
Improprieties	25	(2)
For One Who Will Dust a Shadow	27	(1)
A Consolation	28	(1)
Summary of Alastor	29	(1)
How I Called the Ant Darling	30	(1)
Forgotten Girlhood	31	(5)
Incarnations	36	(1)
Several Love-Stories	37	(1)
The Mask	38	(1)
The Signature	39	(1)
Chloe Or...	40	(1)
Yes and No	41	(1)
Chrysalis	42	(1)
So Slight	43	(1)
The Tillaquils	44	(1)
Take Hands	45	(1)
Lucrcee and Nara	46	(1)
The Sad Boy	47	(2)
Mortal	49	(1)
The Quids	50	(2)
Afternoon	52	(1)
No More Are Lovely Palaces	53	(1)
Goat and Amalthea	54	(1)
The Virgin	55	(1)
To a Loveless Lover	56	(2)
Druida	58	(2)
Back to the Mother Breast	60	(1)
As Well as Any Other	61	(1)
John and I	62	(2)
Lying Spying	64	(2)
The Lullaby	65	(2)
Helen's Burning	67	(1)
Helen's Faces	68	(1)
The Tiger	69	(4)
The Rugged Black of Anger	73	(1)
Echoes	74	(5)
An Ageless Brow	79	(1)
There is Much at Work	80	(1)
Many Gentlemen	81	(1)
The Map of Places	82	(1)
Death as Death	83	(1)
The Troubles of a Book	84	(1)
The Wind Suffers	85	(1)
Ding-Donging	86	(1)
You or You	87	(1)
Grace	88	(1)
All Nothing, Nothing	89	(2)
Sea, False Philosophy	91	(1)
World's End	92	(1)
Rhythms of Love	93	(3)
Dear Possible	96	(1)
O Vocables of Love	97	(1)
In Nineteen Twenty-Seven	98	(4)
Rejoice, Liars	102	(1)
Beyond	103	(1)
In Due Form	104	(1)
Come, Words, Away	105	(3)
As to a Frontispiece	108	(1)
Tale of Modernity	109	(3)
As Many Questions as Answers	112	(1)
Earth	113	(1)
The Way It is	114	(1)
The Wind, the Clock, the We	115	(1)
The World and I	116	(1)
The Flowering Urn	117	(1)
Nor Is It Written	118	(1)
Auspice of Jewels	119	(2)
Memories of Mortalities	121	(12)
Be Grave, Woman	133	(1)
Divestment of Beauty	134	(1)
Wishing More Dear	135	(1)
After So Much Loss	136	(2)
When Love Becomes Words	138	(5)
Doom in Bloom	143	(1)
Nothing So Far	144	(1)
Laura and Francisca	145	(16)
Index of First Lines	161