After Pushkin: Versions of the Poems of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin by Contemporary Poets

by Elaine Feinstein (Editor), Alexander Pushkin

‘How do you convince the English-speaking public that Pushkin’s genius is as great as the Russians claim?’ This question, raised at the bicentenary of Pushkin’s birth, is the catalyst for a collection of new translations, versions of and responses to the poetry of Pushkin by some of the best poets writing in English today.

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Elaine Feinstein was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as an editor for Cambridge University Press (1960-62), as Lecturer in English at Bishop's Stortford Training College (1963-6), as Assistant Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Essex (1967-70), and as a journalist.

She has contributed to many periodicals, including the Times Literary Supplement, and was formerly Writer in Residence for the British Council in Singapore and Tromsø, Norway.

Of Russian-Jewish ancestry, she has been influenced by Russian writers, especially Marina Tsvetayeva and Anna Akhmatova.

She is the author of a number of plays for television and radio and several biographies, including singer Bessie Smith, writer D. H. Lawrence, Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and Anna Akhmatova.