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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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 |
Textual Production | Theodora Benson | |
Textual Production | Rumer Godden | RG
was critical of the distaste with which English writers Osbert
and Edith Sitwell
or Vita Sackville-West
had regarded their American lecture audiences. About her coast-to-coast tour with her husband she later wrote, I took... |
Textual Production | E. B. C. Jones | Her contributors included Jane Barlow
, Frank Betts
, Elizabeth Bridges (later Daryush)
, M. St Clare Byrne
, Elsa L. Duff
, A. P. Herbert
, Aldous Huxley
, E. H. W. Meyerstein
,... |
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/. |
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 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 | Judith Kazantzis | This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain
, Edith Sitwell
, Nancy Cunard
, Cicely Hamilton
, Rose Macaulay
,... |
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 | 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 | 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... |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | Between 1921 and 1929 AH
published fifteen works: novels, collections of short stories, works of non-fiction, and books of poetry. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 356-7 |
Textual Production | Wyndham Lewis |
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