ABSTRACT
Raine (b. 1908), an English poet and critic, has written on Blake and Coleridge as visionary poets, and in her 1976 Warton Lecture she drew Eliot into that company. Speaking of the impact made by Eliot’s poetry on her and others of her generation in the late 1920s, she says: ‘We did not read his poems in any perspective at alls rather we were in them, ourselves figures in the sad procession of Eliot’s London, that “unreal city” in whose unreality lay its terrible reality.’ See Waste Land, Holy Land, ‘Proceedings of the British Academy’ (1976), lxii, 379–97.
