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Feb 27, 2011 · If Edith Sitwell was a pioneering modernist genius, as this definitive new biography suggests, her gift was not so much for poetry as for an outsider life well lived. Rachel Cooke. Sat 26 Feb...
Best known as a modernist poet and critic, Edith Sitwell also became a patron of the arts after the First World War along with her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell. She also established herself as a nonconformist intellectual and champion of modernism in literature, the visual arts, and music.
Sitwell, Edith (1887–1964) Major 20th-century British poet, awarded the title of "Dame" in recognition of her literary achievements, who was co-creator, with Sir William Walton, of the groundbreaking music and poetry "entertainment" entitled Facade. Pronunciation: SIT-well.
May 23, 2011 · Poet and biographer Richard Greene, who teaches at the University of Toronto and won a Governor General's Literary Award in 2010, has written a new biography of Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), reports the Montreal Gazette.
1964. Read poems by this poet. Edith Sitwell was born on September 7, 1887, in Yorkshire, England. An eccentric and controversial figure of her time, she wrote plays, fiction, and nonfiction as well as poetry. Her collections of verse include The Wooden Pegasus (B. Blackwell, 1920), Five Variations on a Theme (Duckworth, 1933), and Green Song ...
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was born into an aristocratic family and, along with her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, had a significant impact on the artistic life of the 20s. She encountered the work of the French symbolists, Rimbaud in particular, early in her writing life and became a champion of the modernist movement, editing six editions ...
At the Fair. By Edith Sitwell. I. Springing Jack. Green wooden leaves clap light away, Severely practical, as they. Shelter the children candy-pale, The chestnut-candles flicker, fail . . . The showman’s face is cubed clear as. The shapes reflected in a glass. Of water— (glog, glut, a ghost’s speech. Fumbling for space from each to each).
