Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva

Early in their marriage the Feinsteins travelled by hitch-hiking. EF was always a great traveller, and after she became an eminent writer she enjoyed appearing at literary events worldwide. Meanwhile she spent a summer at...

Poems in The Magic Apple Tree often run to minimalist effects, often an atmosphere of weather: mist, cold, damp, or sunless in August, white / sky, silence. This volume contains Offering: for Marina Tsvetayeva

The essays in this volume date from 1977-1985 and cover a wide range of topics, including an autobiographical essay on Dyson's path to becoming a poet, an essay on Jesus , and a critical look...

EF published her second, more ambitious biography, A Captive Lion, The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva.

The translations are from Marina Tsvetayeva . EF 's own topics notably include women's lives, the struggle to fill expected roles like those of wife and mother, and the play of conflicting emotions.

It was the discovery of Marina Tsvetayeva and other Russian poets, says EF ,which did most to...

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...

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.

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 .

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...

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...

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

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 Dante describes meeting the great dead under the...

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)....

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...