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 | 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 |
Textual Features | Vita Sackville-West | It was to have been purposely old-fashioned, to combat the modernism represented by Edith Sitwell
and her brothers. |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | After attending Sitwell
's Façade at least twice (the first, private performance and another in 1926), VSW
declared that in fifty years those frauds the Sitwells Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 164 |
Textual Features | Vita Sackville-West | Here VSW
mentioned her dissatisfaction with the pessimism of T. S. Eliot
and the self-advertising of the Sitwells
, and voiced the hope for a poetry capable of seriousness and noble thoughts. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 168 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
was a close friend of Rose Macaulay
, with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing... |
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 |
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... |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | Of the fourteen poets invited to read four were women: Edith Sitwell
, Kathleen Raine
, Dorothy Wellesley
, and Ridler. Sitwell and T. S. Eliot
sat on either side of the Chair of the evening, Desmond MacCarthy
. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp. 141 |
Education | Anne Ridler | She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs
lectured on Shakespeare
, Donne
, and Milton |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laura Riding | The volume was, says Elizabeth Friedmann
, largely a response to the ideas of Wyndham Lewis
. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 114 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
Textual Production | Kathleen Raine | KR
's poetry, which focusses on archetypal forms of being, is influenced by Swedenborg
and the Neo-Platonists. She was also fascinated by the avant-garde movements of her era: Bloomsbury Humanism, Freud
ianism, Wittgenstein
's and... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Ann Quin | In Connecticut she attended a party to celebrate the recent publication of Marguerite Young
's novel Miss MacIntosh, my darling. Commenting on this nearly two-thousand-page tome, AQ
noted if Edith Sitwell
had written a... |
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