India Seen Afar - Hardcover

In this fourth and final volume of her autobiography, this British poet completes the work begun in Farewell Happy Fields and continued in The Land Unknown and The Lion's Mouth. Occasioned by her first visit to India, at the age of seventy-four, she reflects on the profound significance of Indian philosophy and wisdom, the 'India of the Imagination.'

Kathleen 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. Her poems and essays assert that true poetry is an expression of the spirit, the unfolding of a reality often hidden by the material appearance of things. Raine wrote a three-part autobiography (1973-1977), founded the magazine "Temenos" in 1981 to articulate her views, and in 1990 established the Temenos Academy of Integral Studies, a teaching academy that stressed a multistranded universalist philosophy. A professor at Cambridge and the author of a number of scholarly books, she was an expert on Coleridge, Blake, and Yeats.