Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Raine
Raine in 1991
Born
Kathleen Jessie Raine

(1908-06-14)14 June 1908
Died6 July 2003(2003-07-06) (aged 95)
London
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge
Occupationpoet
Spouses
Children2
Awards

Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founding member of the Temenos Academy.[1]

  1. ^ Couzyn, Jeni (1985) Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe, p. 56.