Poet and novelist who transformed literary writing in the 1970s
Elaine Feinstein, who has died aged 88, was a leading poet and the bringer of a new internationalism to British verse. As a novelist, she was one of the women who transformed literary writing in the 1970s.
In 1961 she published the first translations into English of works by Maria Tsvetayeva, and went on to produce a biography of the great Russian poet’s tragic life, A Captive Lion (1987).
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