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Craig Raine


Born
in Bishop Auckland, England, The United Kingdom
December 03, 1944


Poet and critic Craig Raine was born on 3 December 1944 in Bishop Auckland, England, and read English at Exeter College, Oxford.

He lectured at Exeter College (1971-2), Lincoln College, Oxford, (1974-5), and Christ Church, Oxford, (1976-9), and was books editor for New Review (1977-8), editor of Quarto (1979-80), and poetry editor at the New Statesman (1981). Reviews and articles from this period are collected in Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990). He became poetry editor at the London publishers Faber and Faber in 1981, and became a fellow of New College, Oxford, in 1991. He gained a Cholmondeley Award in 1983 and the Sunday Times Writer of the Year Award in 1998. He is founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté.

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The Onion, Memory
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Rich
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Heartbreak
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My Grandmother's Glass Eye:...
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History: The Home Movie
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Haydn and the valve trumpet
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“The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.”
― Craig Raine
tags: artists, inspirational, writers-on-writing, writing
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“Friendship is one friend betraying another friend to a third friend. With a fond friendly smile. The greater the betrayal, the greater the intimacy - the greater the friendship.”
― Craig Raine, Heartbreak
tags: frienship
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“Begin with the soft smelted upturned heart-shaped mouth made for smiling a smile kept for kindness, tenderness, incapable of malice.

Am I going too fast for you?

The almond eyes see out through their sleepy epicanthic fold. Trusting and calm, if a flicker from slowness, a further flicker from stupidity.

Settled in slow-motion beauty, heart-breaking beauty.”
― Craig Raine
tags: beauty, down-syndrome
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