Laura Riding's Pursuit of Truth
Summary
Joyce Wexler provides a careful and sympathetic analysis of Riding's poetry, detailing its gradual and unstoppable movement from the sensuous to the spare, from the lyrical to the abstract. Wexler argues that this development is consonant with Riding's deliberate attempt to use poetry as a means of expressing "truth," and that her decision to cease writing poetry was a result of her discovery that poetry was incompatible with "truth-telling." Largely an exercise in literary exegesis, this contains enough biographical suggestions to make the reader wish Wexler has conducted a psychological as well as an epistemological study.
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