A selective list of open access literary criticism on Laura Riding Jackson, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Pages
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Bernstein, Charles. "Riding's reason: An introduction to Laura (Riding) Jackson and Schuyler Jackson's Rational Meaning: Toward a New Foundation of Words." And extended discussion of Laura Riding Jackson's life and ideas, by a leading language poet and professor. College Literature, Oct 1997
Friedmann, Elizabeth. Letter in response to "The White Goddess!" A letter to the NY Review of Books, Feb. 3, 1994, responding to a review of Laura Riding by Helen Vendler.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. Publisher's web site for A Mannered Grace: The Life of Laura (Riding) Jackson (Persea Books, 2005).
An introduction to Laura Riding, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois).
On Laura Riding and Robert Graves, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois).
The Laura (Riding) Jackson papers at Cornell University Library.
On the Fugitives, the Southern poets associated with John Crowe Ransom and Vanderbilt University, and Laura Riding's connection with them. From the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture.
The Laura (Riding) Jackson web site, created by the Board of Literary Management of the late Laura (Riding) Jackson. Selections of her poems from the out-of-print Selected Poems in Five Sets.
On the contention that poet Robert Graves stole the work of Laura Riding. Brief newspaper article in The Independent, July 4, 2008.
Some notes on Riding's "defection from poetry," by Carolyn Burke. From How(ever) 1,2 (October 1983). (taken offline at http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts1083.html)
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