It Goes with the Territory: Memoir of a Poet: Memoirs of a Poet - Hardcover

Elaine Feinstein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846883016 ISBN 13: 9781846883019

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

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 into 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 sometimes painful marriage. This book, however, is not only the intimate memoir of one of Britain's finest poets and novelists: it is also the story of a rapidly changing country and of an entire generation of authors. Told with the precision of a biographer and the finesse of a poet, and peppered with witty literary anecdotes, It Goes with the Territory is an absorbing read from beginning to end.

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Review:

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 century. 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 Daily Telegraph

Entertaining and touching slices of life. -- Piers Plowright, Camden Review

A vivid evocation of a life dedicated to poetry and writing --The Independent

A delight and an inspiration for women, Jews and other outsiders who have something important to communicate. --Jewish Chronicle

A fascinating life, full of extraordinary characters. --The Financial Times

This wonderful book is so much more than the memoirs of a poet --The Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1846883016
• ISBN 13: 9781846883019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350