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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 of the controversial magazine Wheels.
The first child of Sir George Sitwell and Lady Ida Sitwell, Edith Sitwell became famous both as poet and bohemian. Reacting against what she called the "dim bucolics" of the Georgians, she and her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell constituted a kind of aristocratic bohemian vanguard after World War I. Sergei Diaghilev's (see Vol. 3) Russian Ballet joined T. S. Eliot and, improbably, Alexander ...
Edith Sitwell was a British poet who is also remembered as a critic. She often wrote poetry to music and was praised for her high craftsmanship. Sitwell won the Benson Medal and published collections including Mother and Other Poems, Street Songs, The Shadow of Cain, and more.
Scarborough, England, 1887–London, 1964. 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.
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 and Other Poems (Macmillan & Co., 1944).
Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (Scarborough, 7 de setembro de 1887 – 9 de dezembro de 1964) foi uma poetisa e crítica literária britânica. Edith Sitwell era a filha mais velha, irmã de Osbert e Sacheverell, do aristocrático e excêntrico Sir George Sitwell , quarto baronete de Renishaw Hall ; era especialista em genealogia e paisagismo.
Edith Sitwell. Textbook Publishers, 2003 - History - 376 pages. Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, states Dame Edith Sitwell, because of "that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and the birthright of the British nation." Originally published in 1933, " The English Eccentrics "has lost none of ...
