Letter from Kathleen Raine to Herbert Read, October 21, [1949?-1965?]

Part of a collection of correspondence from Kathleen Raine to Herbert Read. Raine was a British scholar and poet who was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1992. The correspondence here follows Raine’s work on a book about William Blake’s mythology. Other topics include discussion of philosophical and metaphysical subjects, and references to acquaintances in literary and arts circles. In this letter, Raine congratulates Read on his return home and expresses her feelings about Northumberland versus London.

In Collection:

• Herbert Read Collection

Creator

• Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003

Contributor

• Read, Herbert, 1893-1968

Subject

• Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
• Poets, English
• Authors, English
• Scholars
• Philosophers, Modern
• Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
• Modernism (Literature)
• Authors, English--Correspondence
• Philosophers
• Critics
• Poets
• Literature, Modern
• Anarchists
• Art historians
• Authors

Language

• eng

Identifier

• HR/KR 1-2

Date created

• October 21, 1949? to October 21, 1965?

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 2 pages

Geographic coverage

• England--London

Coordinates

• 51.50853, -0.12574

Additional physical characteristics

• Handwritten in black ink.

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Herbert Read Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• correspondence
• letters (correspondence)

Archival item identifier

• File: 9.40

Fonds title

• Sir Herbert Read fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC100

Is referenced by

• Special Collections finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/sir-herbert-edward-read-fonds

Date digitized

• October 11, 2022

Technical note

• Scanning and metadata by Rowan O'Brian and additional metadata by SC.

Rights

• Use of this material is permitted for research and private study purposes only. For all other uses, contact University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/xyp2-ed86

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