Publisher
Since her first collection of poems published in 1943, Kathleen Raine
has been writing a kind of mystical nature poetry all her own, a poetry
immersed in the quiet air of solitude and imagination. Vita Sackville-West,
writing in the Observer, spoke of her "curious Purity":
"Her poems are like drops of water, clear, self-contained, and
sometimes iridescent with the elusive colors of mysticism." Collected
Poems is the lifework of a visionary, a celebration of the miracles
of nature and man's place among them. Now in her ninety-second year she
has chosen this work from eleven published collections and from other
uncollected and unpublished sources. The earliest poems were written in
the mid-thirties, the latest in the late nineties.
About the Author:
Kathleen Raine is both poet and scholar. She is an internationally
respected critic of William Blake and W.B. Yeats and has won many
literary awards including the Harriet Monroe Prize and the Edna St.
Vincent Millay Prize from the American Poetry Society. She lives in
London.
Collected
Poems