Five reasons why Kathleen Raine’s Second World War essays can help us find peace through poetry ‘A losing battle? All battles are lost by those who do not fight on.’ Kathleen Raine, India Seen Afar (Green Books, 1990), p41. One of three Kathleen Raine Poetry Stones on the Ullswater Way. 1. Her ‘Great Battle’ Meets the World’s To say that the imagery of battle adds an extra charge to Kathleen Raine’s poetry and prose would be to risk abstracting the real, lifelong crusade