


Kirsten MacQuarrie
- Jun 13, 2022
- 2 min
Happy Birthday Kathleen Raine, 14th June 1908
Kathleen Raine by Rollie McKenna, 1951 (National Portrait Gallery) 'To make the imperfect perfect, It is enough to love it.' Today marks what would have been the 114th birthday of one of Britain’s greatest (and most underrated) poets. Kathleen Raine’s oeuvre as a writer and scholar crossed continents and centuries, from paradigm-shifting research into William Blake and other poetic legends – although Kathleen was too modest to count herself amongst their number – to four raw,