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.
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...
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...
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
...
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.