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 | Gertrude Stein | Persuaded by Edith Sitwell
and Harold Acton
, GS
agreed to a small lecture tour. She lectured about grammar and literature. She was apparently inspired to explicate her ideas on composition, rhythm, repetition and identity... |
Occupation | Nina Hamnett | Several of old friends (including Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
) sat for Hamnett for their portraits. Edith Sitwell's portrait especially attracted a good deal of comment. Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc. 98-9, 104-5 |
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 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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