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Collected Poems of original and influential spiritual lyric poet, first released in 2001, and now published by Faber.

About the Author

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'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2000.