A TROJAN ENDING—Laura Riding— Random House ($2.50). Troy’s tale is one of the oldest stories in the world. It has been questioned, sifted, dug into by historians and archeologists, reconstructed by ...

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal,” wrote T.S. Eliot. For 1930s poet Laura Riding, that meant stealing not rhymes but husbands, notably Schuyler Jackson, a rather shiftless sometime writer ...

LIVES OF WIVES—Laura Riding—Random House ($2.50). “All women would like things to happen swiftly and largely—but, the things they would have happen being so different from the things likely to happen, ...