Kathleen Raine

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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.

Milestones

14 June 1908

KR was born at 6 Gordon Road, Ilford, a suburb of London. She was her parents' only child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Raine, Kathleen. Autobiographies. Skoob Books.
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Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.

By 2 May 1936

KR sent the Hogarth Press the manuscript of a book of poems, but they did not publish her, either at that time or later.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
6: 34 and n1

By 11 July 1968

KR published Blake and Tradition, a major two-volume critical study of symbolism and mythology in the works of William Blake .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research.
20: 288, 291

January 2001

The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine appeared, drawing on eleven published volumes and other uncollected and unpublished sources, written from the mid-thirties to the late nineties.
Book Review Index Online Plus. http://gale.cengage.com/BRIOnline/.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

6 July 2003

Poet and scholar KR died at the age of ninety-five at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, from the after-effects of being hit by a car as she went to post a letter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, p. 25.
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Biography

Birth and Family

14 June 1908

KR was born at 6 Gordon Road, Ilford, a suburb of London. She was her parents' only child.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Raine, Kathleen. Autobiographies. Skoob Books.
48
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.

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