Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ketaki Kushari Dyson | 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... |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
published her second, more ambitious biography, A Captive Lion, The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva. Tsvetaeva's name is transliterated into English both with and without the y. Feinstein uses the former version. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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... |
Travel | Elaine Feinstein | 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... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elaine Feinstein | 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. Feinstein, Elaine. Selected Poems. Carcanet. 43 |
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 | 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. |
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. |
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... |
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 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... |