File:Edith_Sitwell_by_Elliott_&_Fry_(1929).png · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Edith Sitwell
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, Edith Louisa Sitwell, Dame Edith Sitwell, Miss Edith, Dame Edith (Louisa) Sitwell
British poet (1887-1964)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1887
- Died
- 1964
- Works
- 229
Top works
- Wheels, 1920, fifth cycle ...
- Tradition and Experiment in Present-Day Literature
- The seven deadly sins
- Trio
- Wheels, a third cycle ...
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1887
- Active to
- 1964
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 356
- Total plays
- 1,920
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Edith+Sitwell">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Methods for detecting carcinogens and mutagens with the salmonella/mammalian-microsome mutagenicity test
· 1975 · cited 6,276x
- Tumor Angiogenesis: Therapeutic Implications
· 1971 · cited 6,109x
- Trastuzumab plus Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Operable HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
· 2005 · cited 4,347x
- REVIEW OF COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH: Assessing Partnership Approaches to Improve Public Health
· 1998 · cited 4,109x
- The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Eighth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer
· 2016 · cited 3,634x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Let us speak of our madness. We are always being called mad. If we are mad — we and our brothers in America who are walking hand in hand with us in the vanguard of progress — at least we are mad in company with most of our great predecessors and all the most intelligent foreigners. Beethoven, Schumann, and Wagner, Shelley, Blake, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth were all mad in turn. We shall be proud to join them in the Asylum to which they are now consigned.”
- “Daisy and Lily,Lazy and silly,Walk by the shore of the wan grassy sea,—Talking once more 'neath a swan-bosomed tree.”
- “Jane, Jane,Tall as a crane,The morning light creaks down again!”
- “I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her "a beautiful little knitter".”
- “My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.”
- “As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Edith Louisa Sitwell , ( 1887-09-07 ) 7 September 1887, Scarborough , North Riding of Yorkshire , England
- Died
- 9 December 1964 (1964-12-09) (aged 77), London, England
- Occupation
- Poet
- Parents
- George Sitwell , Lady Ida Denison
- Relatives
- Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell (brothers)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Roger Fry - Edith Sitwell.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- Edith Sitwell
- date of birth
- 1887-09-07
- date of death
- 1964-12-09
- start of work period
- 1900-00-00
- P12749
- Hor Namhong
via Wikidata · CC0
~15 min read
Article
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. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.
Sitwell published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature.