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...
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The Sitwells (Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell), from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, were three siblings who formed an identifiable literary...
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descent through female lines from the Plantagenets. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings. Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire...
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Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet CH CBE (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother...
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of writer Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet and of poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell. He is the heir presumptive to the Sitwell baronetcy currently held...
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the House of Commons between 1885 and 1895. Sitwell was born in London, the son of Sir Sitwell Reresby Sitwell, 3rd Baronet and his wife Louisa Lucy Hutchinson...
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Sitwell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A member of the Sitwell literary family: Edith Sitwell Osbert Sitwell Sacheverell Sitwell...
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Edith Sitwell is a portrait of the British poet and critic Edith Sitwell made by Wyndham Lewis. It was begun in 1923 and abandoned until 1935 when it was...
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Façade (entertainment) (category Works by Edith Sitwell)
Façade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Façade – An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment...
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and mourned a lack of eccentricity as "the chief danger of the time". Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) wrote that eccentricity is "often a kind of innocent pride"...
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Archived from the original on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2018. "Edith Sitwell in Scarborough". bbc. 17 March 2020. Archived from the original on 17...
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Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet. He is the great-nephew of writer Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet, and of poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell. He inherited...
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the fifth and sixth baronets, were both noted poets and authors. Dame Edith Sitwell, his only daughter, was a poet and critic. The seventh Baronet was High...
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"radiohaha -- Five Squeezy Pieces". Angelfire. Retrieved 29 April 2022. "Edith Sitwell in Scarborough". bbc. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 12 April 2020. Julia...
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He and Edith Sitwell had a long-standing close friendship and they corresponded frequently. Tchelitchew painted six major portraits of Sitwell. His first...
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[citation needed] He was the nephew of poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell. During his lifetime, Sitwell wrote a new variation upon the Robin Hood tale, was a...
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actress Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish poet Edith Somerville (1858–1949), Irish novelist Edith Stein...
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as somewhat narrow, he "soars high and plunges deep". British poet Edith Sitwell revealed in the preface of Villa's Selected Poems and New that she experienced...
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most-read English-language versions of the novel. The British poet Edith Sitwell characterized Monkey as "a masterpiece of right sound", one that was...
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benefits of some natural medicines, including herbal colon cleansing. Edith Sitwell mentions Parr in 1958's English Eccentrics: A Gallery Of Weird And Wonderful...
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Ponsonby Loelia Ponsonby Anthony Powell Elizabeth Russell Edith Sitwell Osbert Sitwell Sacheverell Sitwell Eleanor Smith David Tennant Stephen Tennant Henry Thynne...
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1957. Though Campbell was considered by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell to have been one of the best poets of the period between the First and...
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literary Sitwell siblings, who provided him with a home and a cultural education. His earliest work of note was a collaboration with Edith Sitwell, Façade...
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Pound – Andrew Young – Siegfried Sassoon – Rupert Brooke – Edwin Muir – Edith Sitwell – T. S. Eliot – John Crowe Ransom – W. J. Turner – Dorothy Wellesley...
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1975) Praise we great men for soloists, chorus and orchestra (words by Edith Sitwell; 1976. Completed by Colin Matthews, 1985) Welcome Ode, Op. 95, for young...
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(entertainment), poems by Edith Sitwell set to music by William Walton Façade (ballet), a ballet by Frederick Ashton based on the Sitwell/Walton work, above...
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growing awe". A poem by Driberg, in the style of Edith Sitwell, was published in Oxford Poetry 1926; when Sitwell came to Oxford to deliver a lecture, Driberg...
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Charles Korsetz (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962) Images with a preface by Edith Sitwell and an introduction by Christopher Isherwood (Weidenfeld & Nicolson...
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Henrik Aeshna,Steve Dalachinsky, Yoko Ono and Jaap Blonk. The poet Edith Sitwell coined the term abstract poetry to describe some of her own poems which...
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the discrepancies between cultural perceptions of female beauty. Dame Edith Sitwell referred to her allusively in "Hornpipe", a poem in the satirical collection...
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