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Edith Sitwell

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Also known as Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, Edith Louisa Sitwell, Dame Edith Sitwell, Miss Edith, Dame Edith (Louisa) Sitwell

British poet (1887-1964)

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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 ...

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1887
Active to
1964

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Listeners
356
Total plays
1,920

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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.

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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)

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Edith Sitwell
date of birth
1887-09-07
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1964-12-09
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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. 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.

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