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Kathleen Raine

1908 - 2003

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Kathleen Jessie Raine (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was an English poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founding member of the Temenos Academy. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Kathleen Raine is the 6,294th most popular writer (up from 6,335th in 2024), the 5,481st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,454th in 2019) and the 601st most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Kathleen Raine ranks 6,294 out of 7,302. Before her are Dorothy Richardson, Jack McDevitt, Georgi Vladimov, Anne-Marie Garat, Vittorio Arrigoni, and Michal Šanda. After her are Joan Carreras i Goicoechea, Bayard Taylor, John Toll, Chris Claremont, William H. Gass, and Mah Laqa Bai.

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Among people born in 1908, Kathleen Raine ranks 403. Before her are Paul Stewart, Gheorghe Ciolac, Stanley Wagner, Fidel Ortiz, Alexey Okladnikov, and Alan Baxter. After her are Albert Maltz, Marceline Day, Luis Pérez, Billy Gonsalves, Antony Tudor, and Raymond Scott. Among people deceased in 2003, Kathleen Raine ranks 345. Before her are Karen Morley, Sultan Rakhmanov, Rajko Žižić, Trevor Goddard, Dezső Lemhényi, and Georgi Vladimov. After her are Steve O'Rourke, Yuri Falin, Malik Meraj Khalid, Marie Maynard Daly, Koji Kondo, and Andrey Kivilev.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Raine ranks 5,483 out of 8,785. Before her are Martyn Poliakoff (1947), Gemma Chan (1982), Lee Grant (1983), Alec B. Francis (1867), Valerie Hobson (1917), and John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811). After her are Anne-Marie Duff (1970), Henry Robertson Bowers (1883), Claude Buckenham (1876), Bartholomew Gosnold (1572), Malcolm MacDonald (1901), and Nora Swinburne (1902).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, Kathleen Raine ranks 601. Before her are Henry Vaughan (1621), Margaret Oliphant (1828), Ian McDonald (1960), Cressida Cowell (1966), David McKee (1935), and Dorothy Richardson (1873). After her are Chris Claremont (1950), Richard K. Morgan (1965), Polly Samson (1962), Brian Stableford (1948), Hammond Innes (1913), and Sheila Jeffreys (1948).

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