Laura Riding vs. Anton Chekhov
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Laura Riding
1901 – 1991
Laura Riding Jackson, best known as Laura Riding, was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.
"I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for yo…"
Anton Chekhov
1860 – 1904
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, widely considered one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.
"We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well."
Connections
Both wrote about: