Elaine Feinstein

Standard Name: Feinstein, Elaine
Birth Name: Elaine Cooklin
Married Name: Elaine Feinstein
By early 2001 EF had published fifteen novels and thirteen poetry collections, besides translation, biography, and drama, most of it for radio or television. She has given different answers to the question whether her poetry or fiction is primary. In 1985 she said that if pushed she would call herself first and foremost a poet,
Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books.
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but some years later she said that whichever she was working on recently tends to be her favourite genre.
Pacernick, Gary. Meaning and Memory: Interviews with Fourteen Jewish Poets. Ohio State University Press.
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In most of her writing she is an interpreter, bringing work from one language or one medium into another, opening (through poems or novels) historical periods and actual events and people to the enquiring gaze of the creative imagination.
Black and white photograph of Elaine Feinstein by Kaido Vainomaa, reading at Shaar International Poetry Festival in Tel_Aviv, 2010. She is seen from the waist up, standing at a microphone, reading from a slim volume that she holds and bends back. She is wearing a shirt with a V-neck and a metal flower necklace. She has wire-framed glasses and short curly hair.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Ruth Fainlight
Hughes and Plath were about to leave for Devon, but this did not halt the intimacy developing between the two women. Plath stayed with Fainlight and Sillitoe when she visited London, and the London couple...
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
Asked about contemporary poets who interest her, RF named two Americans (Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Anne Carson ), and in England (which she was defining rather loosely) Penelope Shuttle and Sarah Maguire , followed by...
Reception Ruth Fainlight
RF has drawn appreciative comment from fellow poets and writers like Helen Dunmore , A. S. Byatt , and Elaine Feinstein (who has written that in a time when every poet is wooed by the...
Anthologization Carol Ann Duffy
In the same year CAD 's Poet to Prose-Writer, a version from Pushkin , stood first of the six pieces by her among the translations, versions of and responses by British, Irish, and American...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Many poems here feature women answering back to canonical male voices: Liz Lochhead to Donne , Jenny Joseph to W. S. Gilbert , U. A. Fanthorpe to Walt Whitman , Wendy Cope to A. E. Housman
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Dickinson
Because of the extent to which ED 's concentrated and elusive verse, as well as her dissent from religious and social orthodoxies, seem to presage modernism, she has been considered the sole serious writer among...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The other poets included are Kathleen Raine , Denise Levertov , Elizabeth Jennings , Elaine Feinstein , Ruth Fainlight , Sylvia Plath , Jenny Joseph , Anne Stevenson , and Fleur Adcock .
Textual Production Patricia Beer
For the London Review of Books, PB dealt with books by women both in her first review (on 8 November 1979, one month before the magazine first carried one of her poems), where she...
Literary responses Nina Bawden
Auberon Waugh 's review of the book was headed: If only nasty Laura had kept her clothes on . . . .
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Elaine Feinstein , reviewing it along with Salman Rushdie 's Midnight's Children...
Textual Production Anna Akhmatova
AA , at Tsarskoe Selo, composed a poem which became one of her best-known: The Grey-Eyed King, on the accidental death out hunting of a young king, which Elaine Feinstein likens to one...

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Texts

Feinstein, Elaine. The Border. Hutchinson, 1984.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Celebrants. Hutchinson, 1973.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Circle. New Authors, 1970.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Clinic, Memory. Carcanet, 2017.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Ecstasy of Dr. Miriam Garner. Hutchinson, 1976.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Elaine Feinstein Page. http://www.elainefeinstein.com/.
Feinstein, Elaine, and Josef Herman. The Feast of Eurydice. Next Editions in association with Faber and Faber, 1980.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Glass Alembic. Hutchinson, 1973.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Russian Jerusalem. A Novel. Carcanet, 2008.
Feinstein, Elaine. The Survivors. Hutchinson, 1982.