The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine

In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine drew from six decades of poetry to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. The result was this definitive edition, now published by Faber & Faber, which on first release in 2001 was welcomed both by Raine's admirers and by those newly discovering 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 (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'Order des Arts et des Lettres in 2000.