The Poetry Of Dame Edith Sitwell
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The Poetry Of Dame Edith Sitwell
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Author : Dame Edith Sitwell
language : en
Publisher: Portable Poetry
Release Date : 2014-11-21
The Poetry Of Dame Edith Sitwell written by Dame Edith Sitwell and has been published by Portable Poetry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-21 with categories.
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was born on 7 September 1887 in Scarborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Edith was the oldest child and only daughter of her wildly eccentric and unloving parents. Her father, believing she had a spinal deformation, imposed upon her a 'cure' which involved locking her into an iron frame. In 1913 Edith began to publish her poetry, her first was in the Daily Mirror; The Drowned Suns. Unconventional at best as a person her poems reflect this with her exotic costumes and dramatic style all hung on a six foot frame: many adored her, others thought her a poseur. In 1914, the 26-year-old Edith moved to a small, down at heel flat in Bayswater, which she shared with Helen Rootham, her governess since 1903. Between 1916 and 1921 she edited Wheels, an annual poetic anthology compiled with her brothers - a literary collaboration generally called "the Sitwells." Edith was engrossed by the distinction between poetry and music, and with Facade (1922), she created a series of abstract poems, the rhythms of which counter-parted those of music, set to music by William Walton. Facade was performed behind a curtain with a hole in the mouth of a painted face and the words were recited through the hole with the aid of a Sengerphone. The public were baffled by it. Edith spent her life unmarried, but in 1927 it is said she fell in love with the homosexual Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew. The relationship lasted until 1928, the same year that Rootham underwent operations for cancer. In 1929 she published Gold Coast Customs, a poem about the artificiality of human behaviour and the barbarism that lies beneath the surface. The poem was written in the rhythms of tom-toms and jazz. In 1932, Rootham and Edith moved to Paris, where they lived with Rootham's younger sister, Evelyn Wiel. With the Second World War Edith returned from France. In a house with no electricity she wrote by oil lamp. These poems include Street Songs, The Song of the Cold, and The Shadow of Cain, all of which garnered much public praise. However the London blitz poem "Still Falls the Rain" endures as her best loved poem. It was set to music by Benjamin Britten. She became a proponent and supporter of innovative trends in English poetry. Her flat became a meeting place for young writers including Dylan Thomas. In 1948 Edith toured the United States with her brothers, reciting her poetry and, notoriously, giving a reading of Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene. Edith became a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1954. In August 1955 she converted to Roman Catholicism. As a writer Edith claimed to only write prose for money and with titles such as English Eccentrics (1933), Victoria of England (1936), her novel, I Live under a Black Sun, based on the life of Jonathan Swift (1937) and two books about Queen Elizabeth I: Fanfare for Elizabeth (1946) and The Queens and the Hive (1962) she was very successful at that. Edith lived from 1961 until her death in a flat in Hampstead in London. As the subject of This Is Your Life in November 1962 she was surprised by host Eamonn Andrews on the stage of the BBC Television Theatre in London. Edith died of cerebral haemorrhage at St Thomas' Hospital on 9 December 1964 at the age of 77. She is buried in the churchyard of Weedon Lois in Northamptonshire.
Collected Poems
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Author : Edith Sitwell
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Release Date : 1957
Collected Poems written by Edith Sitwell and has been published by Macmillan Children's Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Poetry categories.
Edith Sitwell
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Author : Geoffrey Singleton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
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Collected Poems Edith Sitwell
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Author : Edith Sitwell
language : en
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Release Date : 2006-06-01
Collected Poems Edith Sitwell written by Edith Sitwell and has been published by Harry N. Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-01 with Poetry categories.
A complete anthology of the British modernists poetic works explores the ways in which her writing challenged formal conventionalism and class issues, in a volume that includes Fadotade, Clowns Houses, and Gold Coast Customs.
Edith Sitwell
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Author : Richard Greene
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-11-10
Edith Sitwell written by Richard Greene and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the day who attended her unlikely London literary salon. Her quips and anecdotes were legendary and her works like English Eccentrics confirmed her comic genius, while later she established herself as the quintessential poet of the Blitz. This masterly biography, meticulously researched and drawing on many previously unseen letters, firmly places Edith Sitwell in the literary tradition to which she belongs.
The Collected Poems Of Edith Sitwell
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Author : Edith Sitwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
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The Collected Poems Of Edith Sitwell
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Author : Dame Edith Sitwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
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On Being Haunted By Dame Edith Sitwell
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Author : Ruth Moon Kempher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-10-01
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Selected Poems With An Essay On Her Own Poetry By Edith Sitwell
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Author : Edith Sitwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
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Edith Sitwell
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Author : Cecil Maurice Bowra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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An excellent & enlightening essay on Sitwell's poetry, the poets who influenced her, & how she made her own unique contribution to modern poetry.