Talk:Laura Riding

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"Therefore, her Collected Poems is one of the key Modernist texts" because her decision to renounce poetry was Post-modern.

There may well be a true thought here, but it requires recasting to bring it out. Septentrionalis 22:59, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Also famous, two sentences before, is dubious; please think if another adjective will do. Septentrionalis 22:59, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Attempt at deletion of good information
There was an attempt at deleting much of the good information contained in this article by User:68.20.26.242 on April 27, 2007. No explanation was given for the deletions. Fortunately, I detected traces of previous, informative versions, and found one prior to the vandal's strike. I am leaving here a link to the good version for future reference. -- Palaeovia talk 02:32, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Cryptic coverage of suicide attempt, withdrawal from poetry, etc.
The Writer's Almanac recently (Jan 16, 2009) included a short entry on Riding which makes several aspects of her life clearer than the present Wikipedia piece, which can be quite enigmatic. Perhaps someone who is clearer than I am on these facts (and the reliability of the WA account) would care to incorporate more of this explanatory material. Incidentally, what were the implications of the "broken spine"? See below:

"It's the birthday of poet Laura Riding, (books by this author) born in New York City (1901). She went to Cornell, started writing poetry, and tried to make it as a writer in New York, but she was unsuccessful. She got married and then divorced. She was invited to go to Europe by the poet Robert Graves and his wife, Nancy, and so Laura Riding spent the next 13 years abroad, living in England, Majorca, France, and Egypt, where she claimed she "wrote hard all that time, trying to use words with new exactness." While living with Robert Graves and his wife at their home in London, she became romantically involved with Robert. When Robert Graves took on another lover, Laura Riding was distraught, and tried to commit suicide by jumping out the window. She survived, but ended up with a broken spine. Robert Graves and his wife split up, and he and Laura Riding moved to Majorca together. They were both very productive during that period, producing several volumes of poetry, and each came out with a separate Collected Poems. Riding was a great muse to Graves, appearing in many of his poems. But after they split up in 1939, she got married, moved to Florida, raised citrus trees with her husband, and renounced poetry." Nandt1 (talk) 12:31, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

I wouldn't recommend incorporation into the article of this 'Writer's Almanac' material, which is rather 'journalistic', and in places not reliable, eg 'tried to make it as a writer in New York, but she was unsuccessful', 'was a great muse to Graves'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnnolan (talk • contribs) 10:46, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Early Life, historian Louis Gottschalk link incorrect
In the Early Life section, historian Louis Gottschalk is linked. However, this disambiguation page does not contain any link to Louis R. Gottschalk (Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk). Therefore, the link should be removed, an article created, or a dead link added.) RalphOnTheRailroad (talk) 23:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Excessive use of quotations
Use of quotations from Riding's work is all very well, but they need to be kept concise and it needs to be clear what, if anything, they illustrate. For those who want to delve further into the details of her work, there are individual articles about her major works where this can be done. Deb (talk) 15:23, 27 August 2019 (UTC)