Elaine Feinstein, who has died aged 88, was a leading poet and the bringer of a new internationalism to British verse. In 1959 she founded Prospect magazine (unrelated to the current journal of that name), publishing Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and, among others, Charles Olson, whose Letter to Elaine Feinstein remains today a much anthologised Projectivist text. Elaine Feinstein - Long Life Read moreTed Hughes wrote that her poetry “follows the track of the nerves”, while George Steiner described it as “instinct with caring, with a rare intelligence of pain”. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elaine Feinstein reading her poem A VisitNow she revised her Tsvetayeva translations (1971), produced her translations of Three Russian Poets (1976), and received three Arts Council awards for translation. • Elaine Barbara Feinstein, poet and writer, born 24 October 1930; died 23 September 2019

Source: The Guardian October 01, 2019 14:48 UTC