Elaine Feinstein has excelled as both a poet and a novelist and is also a television playwright and a translator. Expertise in more than one genre is as rare in England as it is in America; and suspicion of such generalism is frequently indicated by...

Elaine Feinstein is equally well regarded as a poet, a novelist, and translator of twentieth-century Russian women poets. She comes from a Russian-Jewish family (her grandparents emigrated from Odessa at the turn of the century), and a strong...

Every week Ruth Padel discusses a contemporary poet through an example of their work. One of Britain's few major Jewish poets, Feinstein was the first to translate Marina Tsvetaeva into English and knows Eastern Europe, especially Russia, intimately. Starting out in the Fifties,...

Anglo-Jewish Poetry from Isaac Rosenberg to Elaine Feinstein, by Peter Lawson. London & Portland, Oregon: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006. 228 pp. $32.00. Peter Lawson's book is the first extended study of Anglo-Jewish poetry and, taken together with his earlier anthology of post-war British-Jewish...