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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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... |
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 | Charlotte Mew | |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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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