Kathleen Raine was born on 14 June,1908 in London, to a Scottish mother and an English father. Kathleen Jessie Raine was a British poet, critic, and scholar writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. she was a founder member of the Temenos Academy. Kathleen Jessie Raine was educated at the University of Cambridge’s Girton College.

Kathleen Raine wrote very beautifully about her own life in four volumes of autobiography. Raine’s many volumes of poems include The Pythoness (1949), The Hollow Hill (1965), The Lost Country (1971), The Oval Portrait (1977), The Oracle in the Heart, and Other Poems, 1975–1978(1980), Autobiographies (1991), Living with Mystery (1992).

She began her autobiography 1973 and it was out in 1977. Four years later Raine had founded her own magazine, called Temenos, to help articulate her views. Raine went on to win several awards, including the Harriet Monroe Prize, Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize from the American Poetry Society, and the Queens Gold Medal for Poetry in 1992. In 2000, she was made a Commander of the British Empire. She died in London at the age of 95.