Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE was a British poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W B Yeats and Thomas Taylor.
18 Facts About Kathleen Raine
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Kathleen Raine was born in Ilford, Essex, the only child of schoolmaster and Methodist lay preacher George Raine, from Wingate, County Durham, and Jessie, a Scot who spoke Scots as her first language.
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Kathleen Raine's father was an English master at County High School in Ilford.
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Kathleen Raine confided her ambition to her father who was sceptical of the plan.
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Kathleen Raine was educated at County High School, Ilford, and then read natural sciences, including botany and zoology, on an Exhibition at Girton College, Cambridge, receiving her master's degree in 1929.
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Kathleen Raine left Davies for Charles Madge and they had two children together, but their marriage broke up as a result of Charles' affair with Inez Pearn, at that time married to the poet Stephen Spender.
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The relationship with Maxwell ended in 1956 when Kathleen Raine lost his pet otter, Mijbil, indirectly causing the animal's death.
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Kathleen Raine's two children were Anna Hopwell Madge was born on 1934 and and James Wolf Madge.
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At the time of her death, following an accident, Kathleen Raine lived in London.
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Kathleen Raine died of pneumonia after being knocked over by a reversing car after having posted a letter.
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Kathleen Raine's Collected Poems drew from eleven previous volumes of poetry.
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Kathleen Raine made translations of Honore de Balzac's Cousine Bette and Illusions perdues.
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Kathleen Raine was a frequent contributor to the quarterly journal, Studies in Comparative Religion, which dealt with religious symbolism and the Traditionalist perspective.
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Kathleen Raine studied Thomas Taylor and published a selection of his works.
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Kathleen Raine was a research fellow at Girton College from 1955 to 1961.
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Kathleen Raine taught at Harvard for at least one course about Myth and Literature offered to teachers and professors in the summer.
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Kathleen Raine spoke on Yeats and Blake and other topics at the Yeats School in Sligo, Ireland in the summer of 1974.
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Kathleen Raine received honorary doctorates from universities in the United Kingdom, France and the United States and won numerous awards and honors, including the Edna St Vincent Millay Prize from the American Poetry Society, and :.