Editing Laura Riding (section)

== Reception and legacy ==
Publication of her work has continued since her death in 1991, including ''First Awakenings'' (early poems, 1992), ''Rational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of Words'' (1997), ''The Poems of Laura Riding, A Newly Revised Edition of the 1938/1980 Collection'' (2001), ''Under the Mind's Watch'' (2004), ''The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language'' (2007), and ''On the Continuing of the Continuing'' (2008). Trent Editions published a number of her works, beginning with the two-volume edition of her literary memoirs, ''The Person I Am'' (2011), following which four early collections of her poetry were edited and re-published with lengthy introductions: ''The Close Chaplet'' (1926), ''Love as Love, Death as Death'' (1928), ''Poet: A Lying Word'' (1933), and ''Poems: A Joking Word'' (1930). Ugly Duckling Presse has also re-published some of her work.

[[Paul Auster]] in the ''[[New York Review of Books]]'' called her "an important force of the international avant-garde".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Auster|first=Paul|title=The Return of Laura Riding {{!}} by Paul Auster {{!}} The New York Review of Books|journal=New York Review of Books|language=en|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1975/08/07/the-return-of-laura-riding/|access-date=2021-05-02|issn=0028-7504}}</ref>

Her poems also had many detractors, such as [[John Gould Fletcher]],<ref>{{cite journal|author=John Gould Fletcher|year=1927|title=Review|journal=Criterion|issue=6|pages=168ff}}</ref> [[William Carlos Williams]], [[Virginia Woolf]], [[Louise Bogan]], [[Dorothy L. Sayers]] and [[Dudley Fitts]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Muske|first=Carol|date=1993-11-28|title=Laura Riding Roughshod|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/28/books/laura-riding-roughshod.html|access-date=2021-05-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Her works have been translated to French, German, Spanish, Danish, Polish, Portuguese and Norwegian (by [[Terje Dragseth]]).