The Poetry of Sitwell (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edith Sitwell
- First Published: 1918
- Genres: Social realism, Poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, United States or Americans, Africa or Africans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Literature, Social issues, Poetry or poets, Spiritual life or spirituality, Christianity, Women, Symbolism, Atomic bomb
Critical Evaluation:
Notoriety was achieved by Edith Sitwell instantly when she and her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, burst upon the London literary scene during the period of World War I, each of them striving in flamboyant and self-mocking fashion to live eccentrically against the grain of a dull industrial world. This early pose was maintained by Edith Sitwell all her life.
Extravagant too were the verses of her earliest period, well suited for the brittle musical setting given FACADE by her composer friend, William Walton. The music was performed with the...
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