Letter from Kathleen Raine to Herbert Read, October 20, [1949?-1965?], [02]

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 discusses housing matters and says that she feels like writing poetry again. She also discusses a review she has written of Read's book "The Forms of Things Unknown".

In Collection:

• Herbert Read Collection

Creator

• Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003

Contributor

• Read, Herbert, 1893-1968

Subject

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

Language

• eng

Identifier

• HR/KR 84-85

Date created

• October 20, 1949? to October 20, 1965?

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 2 pages

Geographic coverage

• England--Cambridge

Coordinates

• 52.2, 0.11667

Additional physical characteristics

• Handwritten in blue ink.

Physical repository

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

Collection

• Herbert Read Collection

Provider

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

Genre

• letters (correspondence)
• 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/r6j0-7n80

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