Kathleen Raine

Claire Garnier-Tardieu is Professor Emerita at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her interest in Kathleen Raine dates back to the 1980s, when she met the great British poet and wrote a PhD on her work. She is the author of translations, articles and a biographical essay. She has recently organized an International Conference on Raine in Paris and given several lectures on the topic.Jessica Stephens is a senior lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she teaches literary translation. Her publications include articles on Alice Oswald, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Racine, etc. She has edited and co-edited several volumes of the translation studies journal Palimpsestes and co-edited a book on the notion of resistance in British poetry.

• Contents: Claire Garnier-Tardieu: Introduction – Kathleen Raine’s Poetic and Philosophical World – Joseph Milne: Kathleen Raine and Tradition – Grevel Lindop: «Octave of the Rainbow»: The Poetic Achievement of Kathleen Raine – Claire Garnier-Tardieu: Kathleen Raine’s Autobiography: From Story to Myth – Kathleen Raine and Neoplatonism – Rowan Middleton: Kathleen Raine’s Poetry of Longing – Gareth Polmeer: Finding Participation: Kathleen Raine’s Poetry and the Search for Meaning – Eric McElroy: «The Golden Form»: Music in the Life and Work of Kathleen Raine – Kathleen Raine: Nature, the Imagination, and Romanticism – Catherine Lanone: (Un)weaving Rainbows: John Keats, Kathleen Raine and the Myth of Psyche – Andrew Johnston: Self and the World in Kathleen Raine’s Living With Mystery – Cécile Cerf: Asphodels, Hyacinths, Anemones: Flowers in Kathleen Raine’s Spiritual Journey – Kathleen Raine: Educator and Education – Caroline Watson: Kathleen Raine’s Vision of Nature in Her Children’s Books – Margot Kuligowska-Esnault: Kathleen Raine in the Language Learning Classroom – Jessica Stephens: Kathleen Raine in Translation: Work Notes in the Form of an ABC.