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Craig Raine was born on 3 December, 1944, is an English contemporary poet. Discover Craig Raine's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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1937

His father was the North of England amateur boxing champion in 1937.

He then worked as a bomb armourer for the RAF, until forced to retire due to epilepsy caused by a Skull fracture.

After the RAF his father worked as a pub landlord.

He was raised in a prefab in Shildon, a town near Bishop Auckland.

He won a scholarship to Barnard Castle School, where he lived as a boarder.

Of his time there he has recalled that it seemed that everyone else's parents seemed to be: "accountants or surgeons or something. I couldn't say my father was an ex-boxer who did faith healing, had epileptic fits and lived off a pension. So for a while I said he was a football manager. But by the end I was inviting my friends home and they thought he was just as terrific as I did."

Raine has commented on his education: "At Barnard Castle I was taught by an absolutely remarkable English teacher, Arnold Snodgrass, a friend of W. H. Auden at Oxford [and later Robert Graves]. There was no question that he altered my mindset on things and made me very critical."

At school he wrote "'pimply Dylan Thomas' poems, some of which he sent to Philip Toynbee, then lead reviewer at The Observer".

Raine 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.

1944

Craig Anthony Raine, FRSL (born 3 December 1944) is an English contemporary poet.

Along with Christopher Reid, he is a pioneer of Martian poetry, a movement that expresses alienation with the world, society and objects.

1972

In 1972 he married Ann Pasternak Slater, a now retired fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.

They have one daughter and three sons.

Moses Raine is a playwright and Nina Raine a director and playwright.

Craig Raine is founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté and a frequent contributor.

1978

His works include a number of poetry collections: The Onion, Memory (1978), A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), A Free Translation (1981), Rich (1984), History: The Home Movie (1994), and ''Clay.

1981

He became poetry editor at publishers Faber and Faber in 1981, and has been a fellow of New College, Oxford, since 1991, retiring from his post as tutor in June 2010.

1990

His reviews and essays are collected in two anthologies: Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990) and In Defence of T. S. Eliot (2000).

1991

He was a fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1991 to 2010 and is now emeritus professor.

1996

Whereabouts Unknown'' (1996).

1999

He was the editor of Areté from 1999 to 2020.

Raine was born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, the son of Norman Edward and Olive Marie Raine.

2007

A short critical-biographical study of Eliot, T. S. Eliot: Image, Text and Context, was published in 2007.

His friend Ian McEwan argues that Raine espouses "very strong and clear, almost Arnoldian, ideas of literature and criticism".