Kathleen Raine
Classics and Consciousness
Series: Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 10 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350260542
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Long description:
For the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, ancient texts were not obsolete, but vital handbooks for reading reality. Drawing on Graeco-Roman philosophy alongside modernist receptions of the ancient world, this book is the first study of her engagement with classical antiquity. Raine's interpretation of the classical past not only informed her literary work, but also gave her a compelling perspective, which located consciousness as the basis of reality. This way of seeing the world, traceable from antiquity to the present day via the 'perennial philosophy', claimed little distinction between inner self and outer world, and stressed the interconnectedness of all beings.
Jenny Messenger explores Raine's use of Graeco-Roman philosophy as source texts for understanding consciousness, articulated throughout her poetry, scholarship and autobiographical writing. Raine believed there were multiple planes of consciousness, across which symbolic poetry and prose could operate to reach the highest levels of being. The creative arts were even capable of shaping consciousness, expanding or shrinking the scope of what could be experienced. Though she won acclaim during her lifetime, her literary reputation has been overshadowed by her relationship with writer and naturalist Gavin Maxwell. This book moves the focus back to Raine's work, bringing her complex classicism to a wider audience.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: Raine's Antiquity
2: Poetry and Plotinian Aesthetics
3: Autobiography and Allegory
4: Other Souls and Altered States
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
