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In these poems, the poet's imaginative vision comes full circle. The interpenetration of the world of nature and the human world is seen with the naked wonder of the child, but bearing the weight of human experience through a distillation of the poet's thought and sensibility. These poems celebrate the power of the hidden mystery, that intangible dimension, without which there is no relationship with the reality of appearances.
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Kathleen Raine (1908–2003) graduated from Cambridge University in 1929. She became one of English literature's most remarkable twentyth-century practitioners. Although she considered herself primarily a poet, she was also a prolific writer of prose, an astute critic, and a distinguished scholar. Her poems and essays assert that true poetry is an expression of the spirit, the unfolding of a reality often hidden by the material appearance of things. Raine wrote a three-part autobiography (1973-1977), founded the magazine Temenos in 1981 to articulate her views, and in 1990 established the Temenos Academy of Integral Studies, a teaching academy that stressed a multistranded universalist philosophy. A professor at Cambridge and the author of a number of scholarly books, she was an expert on Coleridge, Blake, and Yeats.
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