The telling
By: Laura (Riding) Jackson ; with an introduction by Michael Schmidt.
Contributors: Schmidt, Michael, 1947-
Series: Fyfield books
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Jackson, Laura (Riding), -- 1901-1991 -- Philosophy; Human beings
Description: "For Laura (Riding) Jackson, two decades of intense poetic dedication finally revealed poetry itself to be a 'usurping occupant'. It was a long time before she felt ready to publish this post-poetic testament, the book she called a 'personal evangel'. The work of a poet who renounced poetry in mid-life because it hampered the way to something further in language, The Telling stands central to her work and unique in the intellectual history of the twentieth century." "The language-quality of The Telling is distinctive; so too is the author's vision of human fulfilment as attainable through truth-speaking. The core-part of the book, in 62 numbered sections, is followed by a 'Preface for a Second Reading', and in turn by the confiding 'Some After-Speaking: Private Words'. This concentric series of extending considerations - linguistic, literary, social, spiritual - completes the book, while leaving its thought open to further exploration."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Repr. with a new introduction. -- Originally published: London : Athlone Press, 1972.

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