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Kathleen Raine (1908–2003)

Autore di William Blake

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Fonte dell'immagine: Photo from 1945 (Poetry since 1939, British Council)

Opere di Kathleen Raine

William Blake (1970) 287 copie
Coleridge: Poems and Prose Selected by Kathleen Raine (1957) — A cura di — 192 copie
Collected Poems (1955) 76 copie
Blake and Antiquity (1977) 54 copie
Defending Ancient Springs (1967) 45 copie
Selected Poems (1988) 30 copie
Autobiographies (1991) 18 copie
Blake and Tradition (1968) 18 copie
Yeats the Initiate (1986) 14 copie
Temenos (2) 11 copie
India Seen Afar (1990) 10 copie
The lost country (1971) 9 copie
Blake and the New Age (1979) 8 copie
The Land Unknown (1975) 8 copie
Stone and Flower (1943) 7 copie
On a deserted shore (1973) 7 copie
The Oracle in the Heart (1980) 6 copie
The year one : poems (1952) 5 copie
Utilidad de la belleza (2015) 4 copie
Lighting a Candle (2008) 3 copie
TEMENOS 2 (1982) 2 copie
Some Sources of Tiriel (1957) 1 copia
From Blake to "A vision" (1979) 1 copia
Le royaume invisible (1994) 1 copia
The Golden Cantata (1963) 1 copia

Opere correlate

Fiabe irlandesi (1888) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni; Prefazione — 2,665 copie
Illusioni perdute (-0001) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni2,466 copie
La cugina Bette (1846) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni2,254 copie
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni683 copie
The Penguin Book of Women Poets (1978) — Collaboratore — 298 copie
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni264 copie
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Collaboratore — 68 copie
Thomas Taylor the Platonist: Selected Writings (1969) — A cura di — 20 copie
The Poetry Cure (2005) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
Poet to Poet : Shelley, selected by Kathleen Raine (1978) — A cura di, alcune edizioni16 copie
Modern Women Poets (2005) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Of Leaf and Flower: Stories and Poems for Gardeners (2001) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Every man an artist : readings in the traditional philosophy of art (2005) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni10 copie
In'hui, No.9 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Life and letters today, November 1938 (1938) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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This slender monograph was developed from a paper presented in scholarly sessions on Yeats in 1968, published in 1972, and revised in 1976. In its closing passage, it refers to itself as "this most superficial study of Yeats's use of the symbolism of magic acquired through the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn" (74). Author Kathleen Raine appears to have been in the vanguard of academic research on the esoteric interests and activities of Yeats. She is the dedicatee ("to whom else ...?") of George Mills Harper's much lengthier 1975 Yeats's Golden Dawn.

Raine's preliminary remarks on the historical sources and general applications of Tarot symbolism are sensible and well-informed. She follows these with a history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, citing reliable sources from among those available in the 1960s and 70s, but here she makes a few odd blunders. For example, she takes the "Roseae Rubeae" and "Aureae Crucis" to have been the "two higher degrees" of the Inner Order (5), when the Inner Order in fact had three grades and "The Ruby Rose and Cross of Gold" was the name of the Order itself.

The 1976 second edition is very amply illustrated in black and white with images of Tarot cards and drawings from Golden Dawn ritual manuscripts. These are all fascinating and well chosen to support the text. I was especially intrigued by the inclusion of cards from the Tarot packs actually owned and used by Yeats and his wife, even though his was a quite conventional Italian deck and hers was the familiar Marseilles design.

At the outset of the second of the text's two sections, Raine demonstrates that the Stella Matutina ritual for the Zelator grade includes conscious paraphrasing from William Blake (42-3). Her suggestion that pioneering Blake editor Yeats was then necessarily involved in the original composition of the ritual depends crucially on the rather dubious "if the passage belongs to the original text and is not a later addition." As a general matter, her analyses are weakened by taking the Regardie exposures of the later Stella Matutina rituals as authentic texts of the Golden Dawn order in which Yeats had been initiated. She would have been better served, in fact, to work from Aleister Crowley's exposures published in The Equinox as Book II of "The Temple of Solomon the King."

Although Raine consistently disparages Yeats's esoteric antagonist Crowley as an author of "bad verse" (46), she did find it worthwhile to include reproductions of many Frieda Harris Tarot cards with long captions quoting Crowley on the cards' symbolism. She even surprised me by suggesting that Yeats's The Resurrection (1931) may have had a debt to Crowley (47-8). However, I think she erred in pointing to Liber Legis III:34 as the influential text, when Yeats was quite evidently riffing on the Hellas chorus by Shelley ("The world's great age begins anew")--a text familiar and dear to Crowley, who used it for the solar benediction at the end of his theatrical ceremony "The Rite of Mars." (A corollary question: Was Liber Legis influenced by Shelley?)

The most important element of Raine's study, and one with which I take no exception, is her explanation of the relationship of Yeats's magical training to his literary production. I am now perhaps sufficiently motivated to read Yeats's A Vision, which has been on my shelf for decades.
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paradoxosalpha | 1 altra recensione | Jul 30, 2022 |
Signed by the author, who would by then have been over 90. Favourites: "Spell of Creation", and "Message from Home".
 
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PollyMoore3 | Feb 6, 2022 |
YES! YES! YES! Poetry is magick, not the other way round. Kathleen Raine's wonderful overview of the occult influences of Yeats and his involvement with the Golden Dawn is easily the most obscure thing on my bucket list of things to read before I die and has sat on my reading list for many years. To my complete amazement, it's now free to read online at JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27541704
 
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graffiti.living | 1 altra recensione | Oct 22, 2017 |
This is a collection of essays from the 1960s. We hear a lot about some famous poets, from Spenser to Yeats. I learned some new names too, such as Edwin Muir and Vernon Watkins. Raine has a very consistent and passionate Traditionalist perspective in her writing. The last essay on St. John Perse was especially interesting to me, because it started to open up a wider space of genuine confrontation with reality. It made me think of the contrast between Zen and Vajrayana Buddhism. Zen tends to be more direct, while Vajrayana is more mythologically mediated.

I love the idea of art as transformational, purposeful, leading us toward some kind of perfection. This is Raine's steady theme, so I found this book very inspiring!
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kukulaj | 1 altra recensione | Nov 3, 2015 |

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74
Opere correlate
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Utenti
1,096
Popolarità
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Voto
4.0
Recensioni
6
ISBN
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Lingue
3
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