In this concluding volume of autobiography, Kathleen Raine reflects on the profound significance of Indian philosophy and wisdom, the India of the Imagination . When she visited India for the first time at the age of 74, she brought with her the eye of a poet and the mind of a scholar-philosopher long steeped in the spiritual vision of both East and West. India Seen Afar reaches out to the heart of India and its culture at a time when the East looks to the West and the West to the East for guidance. In this narrative of her travels the poet speaks of those human depths that are beyond all superficial divisions, invoking the timeless order which is the culture of India, and which holds an urgent message for the spiritual renewal of humanity.