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The Telling by Laura (Riding) Jackson is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Telling about?

"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.

Who reads The Telling?

Author

Laura (Riding) Jackson

Publisher

London, Athlone Press; Tiptree, Distributed by Tiptree Book Services Ltd

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9780485111378

Category

religious

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.27 / 5 (160 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14