This dissertation provides an introduction to the criticism, autobiography, and poetry of the distinguished modern British poet Kathleen Raine. Carried out with the poet's cooperation, the study sets forth the informing principles, essentially Neoplatonic, of all of Raine's work, extracting these from the poet's critical essays and her letters to the dissertation writer. The function, scope, and nature of her criticism is examined in the light of her eclectic vision and the traditional (Neoplatonic) philosophy of the beautiful. The section on her autobiographies posits the "perennial philosophy" as their touchstone and traces in her three major books of Yeats and Jung, particularly the autobiographical method of Yeats and the individuation process described by Jung. Finally, the poet's journey is traced from the early period of personal, Christian, or Platonic content through a rejection of the immediate and ultimately to a fusion of the immediate and the universal. Raine's controlling purpose in all of her work is demonstrated as that provided by her intuitive vision of the perennial world of the imagination, a vision which compells the artist to shape her poetry and autobiography in images, form, and language befitting the unchanging golden world of her Neoplatonic Eden. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-07, Section: A, page: 3120. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74236 |
| Contributors | NETTERVILLE, HARVEY ELI., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 194 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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