TALKS AND READINGS 1991-2002
Dr Kathleen Raine gave 13 lectures and readings to the Temenos Academy over the course of 11 years. Recordings of most of them, listed in chronological order, may be accessed from the links below. Kathleen Raine is introduced by members of Temenos: John Allitt, William Cookson, her publisher Brian Keeble, Warren Kenton, Jill Line and Joseph Milne. Also included are a second recording of her talk ‘William Blake’s Fourfold Vision of London’, which she gave to the students of The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture, and the recording of the launch in 2000 at the Nehru Centre of her ‘Collected Poems’, in two parts (we are grateful to Imran Ahmad for improving the quality of the original recording of this meeting).
Reading her poems from Living With Mystery 08-06-1992
William Blake’s Fourfold Vision of London (POWIA) 29-03-1993
William Blake’s Fourfold Vision of London 26-05-1993
Yeats’s Holy City of Byzantium 25-02-1994
William Blake – Prophetic Voice of England 25-03-1994
A Poetry Reading 13-05-1994
Yeats and the Learning of the Imagination 29-05-1996
Thomas Taylor the Platonist 15-10-1996
The Imagination According to William Blake 20-05-1997
Shelley as a Mythological Poet 10-11-1997
W.B. Yeats and the Book of the People 15-11-1999
Monarchy and the Imagination 10-04-2002
The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine Book Launch with Brian Keeble, Keith Critchlow and Francis Warner
Part 1 6-10-2000
The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine Book Launch – Poetry Reading
Part 2 6-10-2000
[Photo credit: Pamela Chandler; Copyright: Diana Willson]