SpletI’ll close with Kathleen Raine ‘s fine poem “The Marriage of Psyche,” written 60 years ago now, in 1952. It feels like it fits here — the sense of amazement, of wonder at beauty that lifts you out of yourself. A gift. Read it to yourself out loud, to hear its rhythms. He has married me with a ring, a ring of bright water SpletAfter Cambridge, Kathleen married: because, as she admitted in her autobiography, she had no idea what else to do. The marriage - to Hugh Sykes Davies - failed; she eloped with …

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SpletKathleen Raine (1908-2003) was a British poet, critic, and scholar known for her interest in Platonism and Neoplatonism. She wrote extensively on William Blake, W.B. Yeats, and Thomas Taylor and was a founding member of the Temenos Academy. Raine was born in Ilford, Essex, and spent part of World War I in Great Bavington, Northumberland, which … myriam michail

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SpletIn the current poem, Psyche has survived much of her terrestrial myth. Forgetting is a natural part of it. The poem is not self-pitying or tragic: it’s simply the honest report of a … SpletThe Marriage of Psyche by Kathleen Raine. He has married me with a ring, a ring of bright water Whose ripples travel from the heart of the sea, He has married me with a ring of light, the glitter Broadcast on the swift river. He has married me with the sun's circle Too dazzling to see, traced in summer sky. SpletKathleen Raine(1908-2003) graduated from Cambridge University in 1929. She became one of English literature's most remarkable twentyth-century practitioners. Although she considered herself primarily a poet, she was also a prolific writer of prose, an astute critic, and a distinguished scholar. myriam mayel avocat