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
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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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...
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,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Raine
but that she...
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 .
William and Nina Matheson Books, Inc. http://www.mathesonbooks.com/.
“Alan Clodd Library”. Maggs Bros Rare Books.
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The other poets included are Kathleen Raine , Denise Levertov , Elizabeth Jennings , Elaine Feinstein , Ruth Fainlight , Sylvia Plath , Jenny Joseph , Anne Stevenson , and Fleur Adcock .
Textual Features Jeni Couzyn
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...
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...
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...
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...
Textual Production Monica Furlong
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,
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
which also saw...
Textual Features Germaine Greer
The selection of poets is highly informed. It reaches back in time before GG 's anthology Kissing the Rod, to Anne Askew and Isabella Whitney , and forward to Carol Ann Duffy and Margaret Atwood
Textual Features Germaine Greer
Women are a minority here, but well represented: Fleur Adcock , Anna Letitia Barbauld , Amy Clampitt , Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas) , Emily Dickinson , Freda Downie , U. A. Fanthorpe , Vicki Feaver
Textual Features Seamus Heaney
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...
Friends, Associates Frances Horovitz
Among FH 's literary friends were poets or writers Anne Stevenson , Harold Pinter , Henry Williamson , Gillian Clarke , Kathleen Raine , Dom Sylvester Houédard , Inge Laird , Jeff Nuttall , and...

Timeline

16 January 1929: The Listener began publication; it has been...

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16 January 1929

The Listener began publication; it has been said that it did more for the new 'thirties poetry in Britain than any of the specialized poetry magazines.

Early 1936: The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by...

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Early 1936

The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts (who was put forward for this task by T. S. Eliot ), set out to define the modern movement, not just chronologically but according...

1960: Gavin Maxwell issued his best-known book,...

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1960

Gavin Maxwell issued his best-known book, about otters on Cambusfearna (that is Sandaig, an island off Western Scotland), entitled Ring of Bright Water (from a line by Kathleen Raine : He has married me...

1968: At the end of Edmund Blunden's tenure of...

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1968

At the end of Edmund Blunden 's tenure of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford , Roy Fuller was elected to follow him.

Texts

Raine, Kathleen. A Question of Poetry. Richard Gilbertson, 1969.
Raine, Kathleen. Autobiographies. Skoob Books, 1991.
Raine, Kathleen. Blake and England. W. Heffer and Son, 1960.
Raine, Kathleen. Blake and the New Age. Allen and Unwin, 1979.
Raine, Kathleen. Blake and Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1968.
Raine, Kathleen. Christmas 1960: An Acrostic. Printed for the author and Enitharmon Press, 1960.
Raine, Kathleen. Collected Poems 1935-1980. Allen and Unwin, 1981.
Raine, Kathleen. David Jones: Solitary Perfectionist. Golgonooza Press, 1974.
Raine, Kathleen. Defending Ancient Springs. Oxford University Press, 1967.
Raine, Kathleen. Faces of Day and Night. Enitharmon Press, 1972.
Raine, Kathleen. Farewell Happy Fields: Memories of Childhood. Hamilton, 1973.
Raine, Kathleen. Fifteen Short Poems. Enitharmon Press, 1978.
Raine, Kathleen. Golgonooza, City of Imagination: Last Studies in William Blake. Golgonooza Press, 1989.
Raine, Kathleen. Hopkins: Nature and Human Nature. Hopkins Society, 1972.
Raine, Kathleen. India Seen Afar. Green Books, 1989.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Introduction”. The Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Kathleen Raine, Grey Walls Press, 1950, p. v - ix.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Introduction”. Poems and Prose, edited by Kathleen Raine, Penguin, 1957, pp. 9-17.
Raine, Kathleen, and W. B. Yeats. “Introduction”. Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley, edited by Dorothy Wellesley and Dorothy Wellesley, Oxford University Press, 1964, p. ix - xiii.
Skelton, Robin, and Kathleen Raine. “Introductory Note”. Faces of Day and Night, Enitharmon Press, 1972.
Raine, Kathleen. Living in Time. Nicholson and Watson, 1946.
Raine, Kathleen. Living with Mystery: Poems, 1987-1991. Golgonooza Press, 1992.
Raine, Kathleen. Ninfa Revisited. Enitharmon Press, 1968.
Raine, Kathleen. On a Deserted Shore: A Sequence of Poems. Dolmen, 1973.
Raine, Kathleen. Poetry in Relation to Traditional Wisdom. Guild of Pastoral Psychology, 1958.
Raine, Kathleen. Selected Poems. Weekend Press, 1952.