Among the many manuscripts left behind when she died in 1991 were Volume One of this book, and a cornucopia of material that has been assembled into Volume Two. Earlier titles had been ‘Praeterita’ (after Ruskin) and ‘Later-Life Commentaries’; but the book now bears the title of the two magnificent opening chapters of Volume One. Most of the contents are previously unpublished.
Volume One consists of nine substantial chapters arranged by the author herself. Volume Two is organized in five sections, including ‘Figures of Association’ (such as The Fugitives, Allen Tate, Len Lye, Jacob Bronowski), ‘Extracts from Correspondence’ (which show how her principles of speaking and relation come into play in the actualities of her real-life relationships), and ‘New Thoughts on Old Writings’ (where she thinks-again important undertakings such as Epilogue, A Survey of Modernist Poetry, and ‘The Covenant of Literal Morality’).
Writing in the nineteen seventies and early eighties, Laura (Riding) Jackson looks back at her younger literary self, active mainly as poet in the American and European
Volume One consists of nine substantial chapters arranged by the author herself. Volume Two is organized in five sections, including ‘Figures of Association’ (such as The Fugitives, Allen Tate, Len Lye, Jacob Bronowski), ‘Extracts from Correspondence’ (which show how her principles of speaking and relation come into play in the actualities of her real-life relationships), and ‘New Thoughts on Old Writings’ (where she thinks-again important undertakings such as Epilogue, A Survey of Modernist Poetry, and ‘The Covenant of Literal Morality’).
Writing in the nineteen seventies and early eighties, Laura (Riding) Jackson looks back at her younger literary self, active mainly as poet in the American and European
