Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
The Rattle Bag, arranged not by date, or theme, or even alphabetically by author, but alphabetically by title, aims at and achieves a happy and fertile randomness, gathering chips of brilliance from all times...
In 2000 MF
, together with Andrew J. Weaver
, edited Reflections on Forgiveness and Spiritual Growth by a number of more or less well-known Christians. A paperback edition appeared in 2001,
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which also saw...
Occupation
William Empson
WE
was an enthusiast for Basic English (a simplified form of the language which he favoured not only for exchanges among scientists and others from different language groups, but also as an introduction to the...
Material Conditions of Writing
William Empson
WE
began publishing his poetry as a Cambridge
undergraduate during the years up to 1928 (as did others in the same group at the same time, including Kathleen Raine
). He edited and published his...
Literary responses
T. S. Eliot
George Orwell
no doubt spoke for a section of Eliot's readership when he wrote in October 1942 of the first three quartets: There is very little in Eliot's later work that makes any deep impression...
Publishing
Jeni Couzyn
In the late 1960s a male friend of JC
passed on to her a commission for an anthology of love poems by women. The publisher had delicate lyrics in mind, and was horrified at Couzyn's...
Publishing
Jeni Couzyn
The volume carried blurbs by distinguished names (Ted Hughes
and Philip Hobsbaum
) and her own line drawings. Maggs Bros Rare Books
recently advertised a copy inscribed to Kathleen Raine
.
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JC
's introduction is a succinct and sharply intelligent historical sketch of women's poetry in English and the forces arrayed against it. She begins with the Gaelic oral tradition of the Scottish Highlands as represented...
Reception
John Betjeman
Sir JB
(who had been knighted in 1969) was appointed Poet Laureate. He wrote somewhat apologetically to Kathleen Raine
that he could not v. well turn down a good offer,
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under Raine
but that she...
Intertextuality and Influence
Phyllis Bentley
Its chapters are allotted to its various characters by name. A quotation, acknowledged in the preliminary pages, comes from Worry about Money by Kathleen Raine
(from The Pythoness, and Other Poems, 1949). This book...
Literary responses
Frances Bellerby
Kathleen Raine
highly praised this volume.
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press.
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Timeline
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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.