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had several affairs during 1936 and 1937, culminating in her relationship with Basil Nicholson
. In 1937 she decided to begin divorce proceedings so that she could be with Nicholson, but he threw her...
Friends, Associates
Kathleen Raine
During her marriage to Charles Madge, astrologer Gay Taylor
became one of her closest friends, and they shared many discussions about relating to people and to God. Editor Michael Roberts
and his wife Janet
were...
Friends, Associates
Cecily Mackworth
In Paris Mackworth moved in artistic and literary circles. She met gallery-owner Jeanne Bucher
and artists William Hayter
, David Edgar
, and Hans Reichel
. Even more significantly for her own future, she met...
Reception
E. J. Scovell
Admirers of her work include a number of fellow poets: Carol Rumens
(who identifies her unemphatic, undeceived and honest observation of what is as the mark of a specifically modern sensibility),
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Studies in comparative religion were a staple. The first number included poetry by Raine herself, David Gascoyne
, Peter Redgrove
, and Vernon Watkins
, and visionary art by Cecil Collins
.
Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, 8 July 2003, p. 25.
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Textual Features
Elizabeth Jennings
Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press
with a foreword by Michael Schmidt
. It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination...