Name: The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine
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Author: Kathleen Raine
ISBN: 9780571352029

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Kathleen Raine

Publisher

Faber and Faber

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780571352029

The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine

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Synopsis "The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine "

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.

Kathleen Raine

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Kathleen Raine (London, 1908-2003) is the author of a dozen books of poetry, far-reaching literary essays, such as those dedicated to her mentor William Blake, and founder of the Temenos magazine and the academy of the same name. Unconcerned with the literary fashions of her time, her work belongs to a timeless stream of thought, drawing from Plato and the Vedas a sacred sense of existence and an absolute dedication to the world of imagination. Her memoirs are a unique testimony to the inner life they illuminate. The edition and translation of this Farewell, Happy Fields is the work of Adolfo Gómez Tomé (Mirabel, Cáceres, 1969) and Natalia Carbajosa (El Puerto de Santa María, 1971). The book is also presented with a prologue by Benito Estrella.

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