Kathleen Raine

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Standard Name: Raine, Kathleen
Birth Name: Kathleen Jessie Raine
Married Name: Kathleen Jessie Davies
Married Name: Kathleen Jessie Madge
KR 's lengthy, successful career as twentieth-century poet, autobiographer, essayist, critic, and translator, won her many awards in England and other countries. She called the writing of words (especially poetry) her greatest joy. Paradoxically, it is the written word which communicates from heart to heart, not the spoken word; for our most secret knowledge comes to us in solitude.
Raine, Kathleen. The Written Word. Enitharmon Press.
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For KR , mythology and nature were modes for illuminating psychic development. The core of women's creativity lay in the development of a self, needing both spiritual and human relationships.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Frances Horovitz
This prints writing by Frances, Michael, and Adam Horovitz , by Kathleen Raine , John Papworth , Valerie Sinason , Jeff Nuttall , Inge Laird , and priest and concrete poet Dom Sylvester Houédard ...
Literary responses Elizabeth Jennings
She held bursaries or grants from the Arts Council (after the initial one for her first book) in 1965, 1968, and 1972.
“Lauinger Library: Special Collections Division”. Georgetown University Library.
Some critics disparage EJ 's work along lines effectively summarized by Robert Crawford
Friends, Associates Rosamond Lehmann
RL was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson . Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon , W. H. Auden , Christopher Isherwood
Residence Willa Muir
WM continued to live in their cottage until old age and health problems, partidularly her arthritis, made her move back to London. There she settled into the basement flat of a house belonging to the...
Friends, Associates Ruth Pitter
RP knew T. S. Eliot well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and...
Friends, Associates Anne Ridler
Her brother was working for publishers George Bell , and she met a number of authors, including Antonia White and Margaret Kennedy . Later, through her own work, she met with T. S. Eliot 's...
Textual Production Anne Ridler
Of the fourteen poets invited to read four were women: Edith Sitwell , Kathleen Raine , Dorothy Wellesley , and Ridler. Sitwell and T. S. Eliot sat on either side of the Chair of the evening, Desmond MacCarthy .
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
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Textual Production Anne Ridler
This collection contained contributions from poets, artists, and musicians to the celebration of the nine hundredth anniversary of Winchester Cathedral. Humphrey Clucas , Clive Sansom , Leslie Norris , Elizabeth Jennings , Peter Levi ,...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Wellesley
Kathleen Raine later called this friendship a relationship of teacher to pupil, but one where neither the giving nor the receiving is all on one side. It possessed, she said, that magical quality which belongs...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
On this date he received by post a ballad by her, a reverie upon the grave of a trio of lovers, possibly dating from or inspired by his stay at Penns the previous month. This...
Publishing Dorothy Wellesley
Her name does not appear on this volume as editor, but only on the foreword, dated 1939.
Yeats, W. B. “Foreword”. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, edited by Dorothy Wellesley, Oxford University Press, p. v.
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She calls the volume, however, my book.
Wellesley, Dorothy. Far Have I Travelled. James Barrie.
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Kathleen Raine brought out a new edition of it in 1964.
Literary responses Dorothy Wellesley
Kathleen Raine , though she called DW a minor poet, a not always perceptive judge of Yeats's poems, also gave her credit as the champion of an unfashionable view of poetry, whose revelation of Yeats's...
Friends, Associates Antonia White
While working for the Special Operations ExecutivePolitical Intelligence Department , AW met Graham Greene , Simone Weil , and Kathleen Raine .
Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
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Early in the war, as she gradually moved closer to the Church, she wrote...
Intertextuality and Influence Virginia Woolf
The original audience included Q. D. Roth (later Leavis) and Kathleen Raine . Women writers who later counted it an important influence on them included such disparate figures as Muriel Box and Rumer Godden ...

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Texts

Raine, Kathleen. Six Dreams, and Other Poems. Enitharmon Press, 1968.
Raine, Kathleen, and Dame Barbara Hepworth. Stone and Flower: Poems, 1935-1943. Nicholson and Watson, 1943.
Raine, Kathleen, editor. Temenos. Watkins; Lindisfarne Press.
Raine, Kathleen. The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine. Hamilton, 1956.
Raine, Kathleen. The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine. Counterpoint Press, 2001.
Raine, Kathleen. The Hollow Hill and Other Poems, 1960-1964. Hamilton, 1965.
Raine, Kathleen. The Human Face of God: William Blake and the Book of Job. Thames and Hudson, 1982.
Raine, Kathleen. The Inner Journey of the Poet. Golgonooza Press, 1976.
Raine, Kathleen. The Land Unknown. Hamilton, 1975.
Raine, Kathleen. The Lion’s Mouth: Concluding Chapters of Autobiography. Hamilton, 1977.
Raine, Kathleen. The Lost Country. Dolmen, 1971.
Raine, Kathleen. The Oracle in the Heart and Other Poems, 1975-1978. Dolmen, 1980.
Raine, Kathleen. The Oval Portrait, and Other Poems. Enitharmon Press, 1977.
Raine, Kathleen. The Presence: Poems, 1984-1987. Golgonooza, 1987.
Raine, Kathleen. The Pythoness, and Other Poems. Hamilton, 1949.
Raine, Kathleen. The Written Word. Enitharmon Press, 1967.
Raine, Kathleen. The Year One: Poems. Hamilton, 1952.
Raine, Kathleen. Three Poems Written in Ireland, August 1972. Poem of the Month Club, 1973.
Raine, Kathleen. William Blake. Longmans, Green, 1951.
Raine, Kathleen. Yeats the Initiate. Dolmen, 1984.
Raine, Kathleen. Yeats, the Tarot, and the Golden Dawn. Dolmen, 1972.