Bøger af Laura Riding Jackson

Examines the subjects of poetry, language, and truth, the conflict between truth and art, and the range of human attitudes to the prospect of truth-speaking. This book also includes a series of comments on and judgements of the poets Coleridge, Clare, Eliot, Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Lowell, Pound, Dylan Thomas, and W C Williams.

Begun as a dictionary in the 1930's, this project developed into a re-evaluation of language itself. The author concentrated on the discovery of the principles that embed truth and meaning in words, and thus this study touches on literature, philosophy, linguistics and lexicography.