Poet raised hare-brained daughter in middle of city (8)
I believe the answer is:
idyllist
'poet' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'raised hare-brained daughter in middle of city' is the wordplay.
'raised' says the letters should be written in reverse (going up in a down clue).
'hare-brained' becomes 'silly' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'middle of' means to look at the middle letters.
The central letters of 'city' are 'it'.
'silly'+'d'='sillyd'
'sillyd' in reverse letter order is 'dyllis'.
'dyllis' placed into 'it' is 'IDYLLIST'.
Can you help me to learn more?