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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess.
Edith Sitwell needs to be remembered not only as the bright young parodist of Façade, but as the angry chronicler of social injustice, as a poet who has found forms adequate to the atomic age and its horrors, and as a foremost poet of love. Her work displays enormous range of subject and of form.
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887– 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. Like her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell, Edith reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents, and lived for much of her life with her governess.
Dame Edith Sitwell was a towering figure in 20th-century English literature. A celebrated poet, critic, and biographer, she is remembered for her bold experimentation with language and her unwavering commitment to artistic innovation.
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May 18, 2018 · The English poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was one of England's dominating literary figures for half a century and its most eminent woman poet. Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough on Sept. 7, 1887, into a family of landed gentry.
Edith Sitwell. (1887—1964) poet and biographer. Quick Reference. (1887–1964) British poet and critic. Created a DBE in 1954, this tall, exotically dressed, bejewelled, and invariably turbanned eccentric was a familiar feature of London literary life.
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.
Dame Edith Sitwell (also Louisa) 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.
Edith Sitwell (September 7, 1887 – December 9, 1964) was a British poet and critic. Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, of aristocratic but eccentric parentage of Lord George Sitwell and ex-socialite Lady Ida Sitwell of Renishaw Hall.
Edith Sitwell: avant-garde poet, English genius. Pages: 544pp. Publisher: Virago. Publisher URL: Place of Publication: London. Reviewer: Jane Dowson. ‘The Sitwells belong to the history of publicity rather than of poetry’, famously pronounced F. R. Leavis in New Bearings in English Poetry (1932).
