← Laura RidingA Survey of Modernist Poetryby Laura RidingCritical essay on modernist poetry by an influential poet and theoristFind on Amazon↗About the authorLaura RidingAmerican poet and critic who collaborated with Robert Graves and was a leading figure of the 1920s and 30s avant-garde. She later renounced poetry in favor of a search for linguistic truth.More by Laura RidingThe Close Chaplet→Collected PoemsComplete poems of an avant-garde modernist engaged with language and poetic form→