← Laura RidingThe Close Chapletby Laura RidingFind 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 RidingCollected PoemsComplete poems of an avant-garde modernist engaged with language and poetic form→A Survey of Modernist PoetryCritical essay on modernist poetry by an influential poet and theorist→