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Family and Intimate relationships | Elaine Feinstein | She said she was a very beleaguered mother . . . . not a great housekeeper or organizer domestically at all. I'm really very bad at it. So there were three small children and a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | An edition of 1981 added the literal versions of the original poems by Angela Livingstone
on which Feinstein relied for her renderings into poetry. An enlarged edition followed in 1986, and a fourth edition was... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jo Shapcott | This volume (with epigraph from William Carlos Williams
) includes more Mad Cow poems, together with a number of animal poems, like Pig, Hedgehog, Rhinoceros. JS
's intensely sensuous imagination issues in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Germaine Greer | The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles
and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan
, via Charles Baudelaire
, T. S. Eliot |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elaine Feinstein | EF
wrote her first poems at play, while she bounced tennis balls against the garage door. When she showed one to a teacher and it appeared in the school magazine, she became hooked for life... |
Author summary | Anna Akhmatova | Writing through the turmoils of the twentieth century, AA
(Anna of all the Russias as she was solemnly called by her fellow poet Marina Tsvetaeva
) was one of the greatest poets of Russian... |
Reception | Elaine Feinstein | These translations have been much admired. Ellendea Proffer
wrote in the New York Times Book Review that they are certainly . . . the best translations available (a compliment that ignores the dearth of competition).... |
Textual Features | Elaine Feinstein | The poet-narrator revisits the Russia of the 1930s and meets the great writers who rule her imagination, under the guidance of Marina Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva
, as |
Textual Features | Gillian Allnutt | In the poemWhy NotGA
ponders the relationship between women's writing, the ambiguity of language, and the seduction of suicide. The speaker (presumably GA
) imaginatively places herself in the subject-position of Virginia Woolf |
Textual Features | Elaine Feinstein | The tone is set by Urban Lyric, which relates poetry to survival: the gaunt lady of the service wash, because she has just come through an operation for cancer, is made alert to the... |
Textual Features | Elaine Feinstein | This collection provides an opportunity to consider EF
's earlier poetry-writing decades as a whole. Her vision is centred in everyday life, but that includes the continued presence of the past, of artists living and... |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | It was the discovery of Marina Tsvetayeva
and other Russian poets, says EF
, Tsvetaeva's name is transliterated into English both with and without the y. Feinstein uses the former version. |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
's radio plays are more numerous still: Echoes, 1980, A Late Spring, 1982, A Day Off, 1983 (from the novella of that name from Storm Jameson
's Women against Men... |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | The title comes from Marina Tsvetayeva
, who applied this Tsarist title to Akhmatova to suggest her power to speak for her people, and their admiration of her. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Blackwell |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
published the first English translations of Russian poet Marina Tsvetayeva or Tsvetaeva
(who died in 1941): Selected Poems [of] Marina Tsvetayeva, together with literal versions by Angela Livingstone
. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 3634 (22 October 1971): 1335 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press, 2001. 183 |