Farewell Happy Fields — Kathleen Raine

Author: Kathleen Raine
Publisher: George Braziller
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: First American edition, first printing, 1977
ISBN: 0807608599 / 9780807608593

Condition: Very good second-hand hardcover condition with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, minor rubbing, gentle edge wear, and small handling marks. Binding appears firm and pages are clean with light age toning. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Farewell Happy Fields is the first volume of Kathleen Raine’s autobiography, tracing her childhood, family life, imagination, and early formation as a poet and thinker.

Raine writes with lyrical attention to memory, place, nature, solitude, and the inner life, offering a memoir shaped by the same visionary concerns that run through her poetry and criticism. The book is especially suited to readers interested in literary autobiography, childhood memoir, spiritual imagination, English poetry, and the relationship between landscape and consciousness.