The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine

About the Author Kathleen Raine (1908-2003) published more than thirteen volumes of poetry and many works of scholarship, primarily on William Blake, Thomas Taylor the Platonist and W. B. Yeats. She also published four volumes of autobiography. In 1980 she was a co-founder of the review Temenos and in 1990 founded the Temenos Academy Review in 1998. Raine was awarded the 1992 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the CBE and Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2000. Product Description In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine was uniquely placed to look back on more than six decades of her poetry and to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. From its first appearance her poetry has been recognised as possessing a rare imaginative integrity, remaining faithful to a formal purity of voice, as well as to an imagery whose resonances are at once her own voice yet speak as if from the heart of the human condition itself. These are poems of wonder, of distillation and, ultimately, of affirmation. This definitive collection demonstrates a lifetime's commitment to the learning of the imagination, and, since original publication in 2000, has confirmed Raine's reputation as a poet who has unfailingly given voice to a vision of life in which the temporal, in all its modes and places, is imbued with the numinous and the eternal. Book Description Collected Poems of original and influential spiritual lyric poet, first released in 2001, and now published by Faber.