Edith Sitwell
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Standard Name: Sitwell, Edith
Birth Name: Edith Louisa Sitwell
ES
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 | Muriel Spark | MS
became extremely close to her landlady, Tiny Lazzari
, who despite her name was Irish, and who not only lodged her but delighted in feeding her and acting as a gatekeeper to keep out... |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | |
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... |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | GS
began her period of portraiture around 1908. Her portraits resembled biographical sketches but they were usually more impressionistic than factual.She thought that this genre allowed her to capture the immediacy of characters and to... |
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 |
Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | Edith Sitwell
had hosted a tea for GS
when she came to lecture at Cambridge
and Oxford
earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press. 184 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Dylan Thomas | DT
's huge roster of friends in London included the American writer Emily Holmes Coleman
and his most significant early patron, Edith Sitwell
. Before Sitwell reviewed his early poems he had mocked her in... |
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 | 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... |
Anthologization | Iris Tree | Edith Sitwell
included thirty-one poems by IT
in the first four cycles of her serial modernist verse anthology, Wheels. Sitwell, Edith, editor. Wheels. B. H. Blackwell. prelims |
Author summary | Iris Tree | Twentieth-century poet IT
published three volumes of poetry in her twenties and thirties and a long poem in her old age. Her poems also appeared in verse anthologies, most notably Edith Sitwell
's Wheels... |
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... |
Textual Features | Iris Tree | The poems reflect key preoccupations of their time and of IT
's literary circle. They are shaped by admiration for the traditions and themes of later nineteenth-century French poetry, the Symbolists, and such English poets... |
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