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In the final volume of her autobiography, the poet describes her first visit to India, interweaving travel narrative and personal recollection with reflections on the spiritual life of the Indian people
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In this fourth and final volume of her autobiography, this British poet completes the work begun in Farewell Happy Fields and continued in The Land Unknown and The Lion's Mouth. Occasioned by her first visit to India, at the age of seventy-four, she reflects on the profound significance of Indian philosophy and wisdom, the 'India of the Imagination.'
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Kathleen Raine was an eminent poet and scholar of the works of William Blake and W.B. Yeats.
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