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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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Iris Tree | Not long afterwards, IT
was discovered again, this time by classical scholar Edward Marsh
. Marsh was editor of Rupert Brooke
's poems and of the anthology Georgian Poetry, whose five volumes appeared between... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | VT
strengthened her bonds with Osbert
, Edith
, and Sacheverell Sitwell
, and formed others with Peggy Guggenheim
, Isak Dinesen
(Karen Blixen), François Mitterand
, and Cecil Beaton
. Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton. 124-5, 135 |
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... |
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 |
Education | Doreen Wallace | At Somerville DW
became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers
(their religious and political disagreements later drove them apart) and in her circle met Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, and theSitwells
. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press. 57 |
Textual Features | Dorothy Wellesley | The contents are arranged in thirteen sections, from Romance and Poems on Love to Life and Death, War, and Night and Sleep. They come from twenty-seven poets, of whom only five are... |
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... |
Reception | Dorothy Wellesley | W. B. Yeats
, then aged seventy, discovered DW
's writing in 1935 when he was ill in bed and was at work on The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. He was feeling disillusioned... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell
, whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson
, a political mentor Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 128 |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | By the time of the move to Tavistock Square, VW
began to socialize more than she had in years. She circulated with Bloomsbury familiars and (re)acquainted herself with Rebecca West
, Rose Macaulay
,... |
Textual Production | W. B. Yeats | WBY
published The Oxford Book of Modern Verse: 1892-1935. His idiosyncratic selection included Alice Meynell
, Ezra Pound
, Edith Sitwell
, Rabindranath Tagore
, Sylvia Townsend Warner
, and his friend Dorothy Wellesley
. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 280n27 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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