Edith Sitwell

Author : Allan Pero
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081305284X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell written by Allan Pero and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating book that takes us deep into Edith Sitwell's world of artifice, disguise, high camp, and verbal ingenuity. In these essays, Sitwell emerges as a central figure in an alternative avant-garde in early twentieth-century Britain."--Faye Hammill, author of Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History Establishing Edith Sitwell at the center of British modernism, this volume showcases her many achievements in poetry, autobiography, novel writing, criticism, art, and performance. Forgoing the gossip about her eccentric appearance and self-fashioned persona that has too often overshadowed serious writing about her work, the contributors explore how Sitwell combined persona and poetry to foster an outpouring of iconoclastic creativity. The Many Facades of Edith Sitwell argues that Sitwell was crucial to the development of a British avant-garde that operated alongside the conventionally accepted transatlantic modernism of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. With Sitwell as an influential literary player and social architect, the British interwar arts scene was not an ascetic escape from personality--as the modernism of Pound and Eliot has often been characterized--but an alternative space of flamboyant, extravagant, and ornate performance. Allan Pero is associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Gyllian Phillips is associate professor of English studies at Nipissing University.

Author : Edith Sitwell
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Eccentrics written by Edith Sitwell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "English Eccentrics" by Edith Sitwell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Richard Greene
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405511079
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Sitwell written by Richard Greene and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the day who attended her unlikely London literary salon. Her quips and anecdotes were legendary and her works like English Eccentrics confirmed her comic genius, while later she established herself as the quintessential poet of the Blitz. This masterly biography, meticulously researched and drawing on many previously unseen letters, firmly places Edith Sitwell in the literary tradition to which she belongs.

Author : Dame Edith Sitwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell written by Dame Edith Sitwell and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Sitwell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448201578
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanfare for Elizabeth written by Edith Sitwell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sitwell's Fanfare for Elizabeth is a striking account of love, betrayal, and religion as it unfolds in the court of King Henry VIII. Sitwell navigates elegantly through the capricious nature both of Henry's court, and his love life. The youthful hardships of little Elizabeth are played out against the backdrop of the great drama of Henry's struggles with the Pope, and his six wives. Charming in style, Fanfare for Elizabeth ends on a vignette of Elizabeth in her early teens, still oblivious to the grandeur she will ultimately inherit.

Author : Edith Sitwell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448201527
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queens and the Hive written by Edith Sitwell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving chronicle a modern poet magnificently recaptures the splendid colour and sordid intrigue of the most spectacular period of history in Britain. No hive can tolerate two Queens. In the fatal clash between the Protestant Queen of England and the Catholic Queen of Scots, many were determined that 'The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth'. In this moving chronicle a modern poet magnificently recaptures the splendid colour and sordid intrigue of the most spectacular period of history in Britain. "Dame Edith Sitwell is the catalyst of poetry and history. She is able in this tired, utility second Elizabethan age to bring freshness to the English language worth of the first." -The Times

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448207800
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facades written by John Pearson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978 Façades details the lives of three of the twentieth century's most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Aristocrats emanating from a privileged but loveless youth, they moulded the scene of the English avant-garde throughout the 1920s and in Cyril Connolly's words, 'had they not been there a whole area of life would have been missing.' Picking up protégés and starting feuds with equal alacrity they were never far from controversy and were often slighted for being better known for the façades which they put up around their work rather than their artistic out-put in itself. Whether these façades were set up to hide their art or their deeply conflicted personal lives is one of the most compelling problems brought up by Pearson. With as much attention paid to both the private and public aspects of their lives, this biography captures the manifest intrigue of one of England's strangest and most flamboyant families, and the whole host of fascinating characters from T.S Eliot to Gertrude Stein, with whom their paths intersect.

Author : Dame Edith Sitwell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems written by Dame Edith Sitwell and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2006 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete anthology of the British modernists poetic works explores the ways in which her writing challenged formal conventionalism and class issues, in a volume that includes Fadotade, Clowns Houses, and Gold Coast Customs.

Author : Sir William Walton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Façade [an Entertainment with Poems by Dame Edith Sitwell]. written by Sir William Walton and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith Sitwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bath written by Edith Sitwell and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: