It Goes with the Territory by Elaine Feinstein

It Goes with the Territory by Elaine Feinstein

A prolific author of novels, poetry collections, plays, biographies and translations, Elaine Feinstein is one of the towering literary figures of the last few decades. In this, her first memoir, she tells the story of her journey from a Jewish childhood in Leicester to the undergraduate world of post-war Cambridge, the excitement of friendships in the literary world and the tensions of a poet's writing life inside a long and often painful marriage.

Not just beautifully written, with all the power and grace of one of our leading English poets - but made the more remarkable by insights into the history of the poetic life in this country since the middle of the last centuryHere also find travels among Russian poets under Soviet rule - and the story of Feinstein's own marriage, as poet met scientist in the days when people fell in love and stayed in love, through thick and thin.It both illuminates, and moves to tears. -- Fay Weldon
A fascinating life, full of extraordinary characters. * The Financial Times *
This wonderful book is so much more than the memoirs of a poet. * The Telegraph *
A vivid evocation of a life dedicated to poetry and writing * The Independent *
Entertaining and touching slices of life. -- Piers Plowright * Camden Review *
A delight and an inspiration for women, Jews and other outsiders who have something important to communicate. * Jewish Chronicle *
As she illustrates with bracing honesty, Feinstein lives by the words of one of her key biographical subjects, Anna Akhmatova - 'Who can refuse to live their own life?' - however creative, painful and loving that life may be. * TLS *
Beautifully written, evocative and emotionally enlightening, Feinstein's anecdote-filled account of her life, its joys and sorrows and professional and personal successes is enticing. * The Good Book Guide *

Born in Bootle, Lancashire, Elaine Feinstein has written fifteen novels, nineteen collections of poetry, as well as several biographies and radio plays. Her biography Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet (2001) was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize. Her Collected Poems and Translations (2002) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Appointed to the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, she has served as a judge for the Gregory Awards, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Costa Poetry Prize, and has been chairman of the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781846883019
ISBN 10	1846883016
Title	It Goes with the Territory
Author	Elaine Feinstein
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alma Books Ltd
Year published	2013-10-24
Number of pages	320
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