Research Catalog

Title

A selection of the poems of Laura Riding / edited with an introduction by Robert Nye.

Author

Riding, Laura, 1901-1991.

Publication

New York : Persea Books, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Nye, Robert.

Description

163 pages; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Introduction / Robert Nye -- Dimensions -- Ceremonial -- Conclusion -- The Sweet Ascetic -- To a Proud Lover -- An Ancient Revisits -- Angelica -- Another Apple -- Lady of All Creation -- Named -- Summons -- To a Cautious Friend -- Dallydilbaree -- Improprieties -- For One Who Will Dust a Shadow -- A Consolation -- Summary for Alastor -- How I Called the Ant Darling -- Forgotten Girlhood -- Incarnations -- Several Love-Stories -- The Mask -- The Signature -- Chloe Or... -- Yes and No -- Chrysalis -- So Slight -- The Tillaquils -- Take Hands -- Lucrece and Nara -- The Sad Boy -- Mortal -- The Quids -- Afternoon -- No More Are Lovely Palaces -- Goat and Amalthea -- The Virgin -- To a Loveless Lover -- Druida -- Back to the Mother Breast -- As Well as Any Other -- John and I -- Lying Spying -- The Lullaby -- Helen's Burning -- Helen's Faces -- The Tiger -- The Rugged Black of Anger -- Echoes -- An Ageless Brow -- There is Much at Work -- Many Gentlemen --
• The Map of Places -- Death as Death -- The Troubles of a Book -- The Wind Suffers -- Ding-Donging -- You or You -- Grace -- All Nothing, Nothing -- Sea, False Philosophy -- World's End -- Rhythms of Love -- Dear Possible -- O Vocables of Love -- In Nineteen Twenty-Seven -- Rejoice, Liars -- Beyond -- In Due Form -- Come, Words, Away -- As to a Frontispiece -- Tale of Modernity -- As Many Questions as Answers -- Earth -- The Way It is -- The Wind, the Clock, the We -- The World and I -- The Flowering Urn -- Nor Is It Written -- Auspice of Jewels -- Memories of Mortalities -- Be Grave, Woman -- Divestment of Beauty -- Wishing More Dear -- After So Much Loss -- When Love Becomes Words -- Doom in Bloom -- Nothing So Far -- Laura and Francisca.

ISBN

0892552212 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96014741

OCLC

• 34475064
• ocm34475064

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries