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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Literary responses | H. D. | HD's prose fictions met with less critical success than the poetry which she had published hitherto. Their word-play, symbolic structures, and manipulation of myth were seen as arbitrary, as distractions from rather than as elements... |
Literary responses | Ruth Pitter | Belloc
's preface quotes a passage from RP
and compares it with lines by Rudyard Kipling
and by Edith Sitwell
to argue Pitter's superiority to either of these distinguished poets in the classical spirit. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 1318 (5 May 1927): 316 |
Leisure and Society | Rumer Godden | |
Leisure and Society | Rumer Godden | Her literary standards of judgement were high. Among women poets she accorded major status only to Sappho
, Christina Rossetti
, Emily Dickinson
—not Elizabeth Barrett Browning
—and to the more recent Edith Sitwell
and Marianne Moore
. Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. Macmillan. 218 and n |
Leisure and Society | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
made her formal entry into society as a debutante, a change of status . . . important then for the young females of our sub-tribe. Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 34 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Dickinson | Among our contemporary poets, Adrienne Rich
has offered this reading of ED
's life and works: Emily Dickinson—viewed by her bemused contemporary Thomas Higginson as partially cracked, by the twentieth century as fey or... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Taylor | Several shorter stories are gems. Two of them explore respectively the experiences of birth and of death, from the viewpoint of those on the fringes of the central event. Many stories are hard on women... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christina Rossetti | CR
was mourned in a sonnet by Michael Field
shortly after her death. Her influence extended to many other poets of her own time or close to it, including Gerard Manley Hopkins
, Rosamund Marriott Watson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Bowen | The authors whom EB
wrote of for the British Council in English Novelists are (as the commission required) canonical and mostly male. She was deeply influenced by Virginia Woolf
, and wrote after Woolf's death... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Winifred Peck | Her chapter-headings quote from Agnes Strickland
and Edith Sitwell
as well as an eclectic range of male authors from Homer
onwards. Quotations abound in the text as well as the epigraphs, and not all of... |
Friends, Associates | Nancy Cunard | Her boredom with this life (her mother's social milieu) was something that she shared with her friend Iris Tree
, also a poet. Despite her antipathy towards it, this life presented her with important literary... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | Around the same period she began friendships with, among others, Edith
, Osbert
, and Sacheverell Sitwell
, Rebecca West
, and Nancy Cunard
. She writes in her memoir of the scintilliating Sitwell triumverate... |
Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | Jameson met Romer Wilson
, Charles Morgan
, and J. W. N. Sullivan
through her Knopf
connections. By about 1924 she and Edith Sitwell
had visited each other's homes. Jameson felt that in spite of... |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | In 1921 RM
was spending several nights a week in a room she rented in the large house of writer Naomi Royde-Smith
at 44 Prince's Gardens, Kensington. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 191 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 100 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jenkins | Pernel Strachey
was then Principal of Newnham. EJ
, as secretary of the college literary society, was privileged to invite Edith Sitwell
to address the society, and to meet and entertain the great poet. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson. 21 |
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