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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Iris Tree | Sitwell included five poems by Tree in the first cycle, eight in the second, and nine in each of the third and fourth cycles. The anthology, which extended to six cycles in all, also included... |
| Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | |
| Textual Production | Bryher | Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939... |
| Textual Production | Dora Sigerson | DS
's last publication, eight years after her death, was Ernest Benn
's printing of twenty-one of her poems as a pamphlet in its Augustan Books of Poetry series. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alison Uttley | Her diaries offer an apparently uncensored version of what she toned down in her autobiographical works: an internal world of great passion, where self-confidence and uncertainty, pride and self-pity, joy and anguish are intermingled. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. xii |
| 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
writes here of her own career and of her memories of encounters in the literary London of the twentieth century, with vivid and idiosyncratic pen-portraits of literary lions. She describes Edith Sitwell
with enormous... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
includes among her topics Edith Sitwell
, Shakespeare
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
, and Proust
: these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nina Hamnett | This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH
is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nina Hamnett | This book opens in 1926, with the author considerably bewildered by [her] somewhat disordered life since [her] return to England, Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate. 38 |
| Travel | Marie Belloc Lowndes | She also stayed at Mells near Frome in Somerset and at Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire (with Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
). From at least 1944 her elder daughter was at her husband's family home, Parfetts... |
| Travel | Carson McCullers | The couple travelled to France together in 1946, and spent the winter and most of 1947 in Paris, with a side trip to Rome. CMC
loved visiting new places both within and beyond... |
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