Edith Sitwell
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Standard Name: Sitwell, Edith
Birth Name: Edith Louisa Sitwell
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was an important member of the modernist movement in England. She was primarily a poet and secondarily a literary critic, though her personal polemics, biographies, anthologies, letters, and autobiography all reflect her unique personality and power as a literary stylist.
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Occupation | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford
, novelist, was the club's... |
Occupation | Viola Tree | VT
gave a concert at the Aeolian Hall
in London. She sang French songs, including some by Claude Debussy
and Maurice Ravel
. The Æolian Hall was the venue for Edith Sitwell
's notorious... |
Literary responses | Kathleen Raine | Graham Greene
responded to this book with what he called an enthusiastic if ignorant howl. Though he had already seen and admired some of her poems, he wrote, he had not realised the quantity of... |
Literary responses | Gertrude Stein | Edith Sitwell
reviewed Geography and Plays in 1923, and expressed reservations about its insuperable amount of silliness. Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley. 280 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Wellesley | Yeats
admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw... |
Literary responses | Carson McCullers | In England, Edith Sitwell
called CMCa transcendental writer, and V. S. Pritchettthe most remarkable novelist to come out of America for a generation. Dews, Carlos L., and Carson McCullers. “Chronology and Notes”. Complete Novels, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, pp. 807-27. 815 |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | As Rebecca W. Crump
's guide to publications on CR
to 1973 reveals, her high reputation persisted after her death—she stood, according to Katharine Tynan
' article Santa Christina in 1912, head and shoulders above... |
Literary responses | Dylan Thomas | Thomas's first slim volume virtually made his reputation, which its successor consolidated. Phillips, Adam. “A Terrible Thing, Thank God”. London Review of Books, pp. 22-4. 22 |
Literary responses | Dylan Thomas | Reviewers were not quite so generally enthusiastic as over his first collection. Edith Sitwell
, however, this time published a review in the Sunday Times, and her praise prompted an energetic correspondence which helped... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Mew | May Sinclair
thought Madeleine magnificent, having depths & depths of passion & of sheer beauty. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 191 Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 192 |
Literary responses | Lilian Bowes Lyon | Day-Lewis
, though he wrote enthusiastically of individual poems, feared before this volume's publication to make exorbitant claims that would darken judgement. Day-Lewis, Cecil, and Lilian Bowes Lyon. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Jonathan Cape, pp. 11-16. 15 |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | The enthusiastic review by J. C. Squire
was not entirely welcome to VSW
, since she regarded Squire as a silly old ass and all that. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 167 |
Literary responses | Lady Margaret Sackville | Whitney Womack
has recently written that LMS
's war poetry should be read alongside the war poetry of Rupert Brooke
, Edward Thomas
, Wilfred Owen
, Siegfried Sassoon
, and Isaac Rosenberg
, as... |
Literary responses | Penelope Mortimer | Edith Sitwell
and Beverley Nichols
testified to being enthralled Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 71 Gordon, Giles. “Obituary: Penelope Mortimer”. Guardian Weekly, p. 26. 26 |
Literary responses | Nina Hamnett | Crowley's counsel called the stories indecent, vulgar, and ignorant, and demanded that all copies already sold should be recalled and destroyed. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 4 |
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