Craig Raine

M. Hunter Hayes (Texas A&M University, Commerce)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

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Born 3 Dec 1944
Activity 1973-ongoing

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Born in England
Active in England

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Born in Shildon, County Durham on 3 December 1944, Craig Anthony Raine grew up in a working-class home where, as he writes in “A Silver Plate”, the autobiographical prose sequence in his third collection

Rich

(1984), the most important book he owned was a comic book version of Robert Louis Stevenson's

Kidnapped

that Raine's mother had sewn together (

Rich

60-61). The attention to perception that marks much of Raine's poetry, especially his early poems which helped establish the “Martian school” of poetry, owes something perhaps to this seminal influence. Frequently examining everyday domestic or other local settings, Raine's speakers discover wonder in the ordinary. As the author of seven collections of poetry, including his

Collected Poems, 1978-1999

and his verse novel,

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Citation: Hayes, M. Hunter. "Craig Raine". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 November 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5523, accessed 28 November 2024.]

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