Raine, Kathleen. Autobiographies. Skoob Books, 1991.
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Gavin Maxwell
Standard Name: Maxwell, Gavin
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Raine | KR
describes her unrequited love for writer Gavin Maxwell
as the central event in my life. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kathleen Raine | The poems in this volume also deal with KR
's consuming love for Gavin Maxwell
, with her childhood, her old age (so far), and her dreams. A critic in The Spectator termed the diction... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kathleen Raine | The original source of the poetry in this volume was KR
's own unrequited longing for Gavin Maxwell
; the volume amounts to an elegy. However, the poems transcend the personal through a focus on... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kathleen Raine | In this final volume KR
discusses her friendships with artists and her painful unrequited love for writer Gavin Maxwell
. Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 20. Gale Research, 1983. 20: 290 Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, 8 July 2003, p. 25. 25 |
Timeline
1960: Gavin Maxwell issued his best-known book,...
Writing climate item
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...
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