The mind is a museum to be looted at night.
Craig Raine Quotes
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
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| Birth: | 3rd December, 1944 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet, Professor |
About
Craig Anthony Raine was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. He is an English poet. Along with Christopher Reid, he is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry. He was a fellow of New College, Oxford from 1991 to 2010 and is now emeritus professor. He has been the editor of Areté since 1999. He received his university education at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where he received a BA in English and later received his B.Phil. He taught at Oxford and followed a literary career as book editor for New Review, editor of Quarto, and poetry editor at the New Statesman.
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