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' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'middle of' means to look at the middle letters.
The middle letters of 'city' are 'it'.
'silly'+'d'='sillyd'
'sillyd' in reverse letter order is 'dyllis'.
'dyllis' going within 'it' is 'IDYLLIST'.
Can you help me to learn more?