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Kathleen Raine fonds

Record No. SC098
Main Entry Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
Title Kathleen Raine fonds
Dates 1983-1985
Physical Description 12 cm of textual records.
Bio/Admin History Kathleen Raine was born in London, England, and was a contemporary and friend of William Empson, J. Bronowski, Humphrey Jennings and other followers of I.A. Richards. During the 1940s, she began to write poetry. Her collections of poems include Stone and Flower and The Kingdom according to St. John. Her critical works include Blake and Tradition and Yeats the Initiate, the latter published by Dolmen Press in 1986.
Scope and Content The collection consists mainly of material generated in the process of publishing the book Yeats the Initiate (1986), consisting of typescripts, drafts, paste-ups, illustrations, and proofs; plus correspondence, mainly to Liam Miller at the Dolmen Press.
Title Source Title based on the contents of the fonds.
Finding Aids Inventory available.
Online Finding Aids Inventory for Accession 1990-010 (PDF, 26 kB)
File List for Accession 2005-024
(PDF, 10 kB)
Restrictions
Notes See Raine letters in Herbert Read fonds and Philobiblion fonds. See also Kathleen Raine's copy of Yeats the Initiate with holograph corrections: PR5907 R28
Provenance Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
Repository University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections
Subject Headings Authors, English--20th century--Bibliography
Authors, English--20th century--Correspondence
Dolmen Press
English literature--20th century
English poetry--20th century
Miller, Liam
Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003. Yeats the initiate
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
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