SOURCE: "Lynn Riggs: Poet and Dramatist," in Southwest Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Autumn, 1929, pp. 64-71.

In the following essay, Vestal assesses Riggs's works through 1929.

It has been said that all good literature—which may be interpreted to include literary drama—is in the best sense provincial. Certainly the dramas of Lynn Riggs smack of the soil where he was born and bred with an intimacy and intensity which might do credit to Thomas Hardy or some other literary lover of an English village. In this, the work of Mr. Riggs is certainly in the best tradition of English literature. For as a matter of fact the Englishman, though he may live in the ends of the earth, still thinks of his county and the immediate vicinity of his English home as his real country. It is upon this that his thought and feeling rest and from this that his...