Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Raine CBE (1908 – 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, and a founder member of the Temenos Academy. Her poetry won numerous awards and honours, including the Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize from the American Poetry Society. She published more than eleven volumes of poetry, as well as works of literary criticism and an autobiography. In 1992 she was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.