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.
Download or read book Collected Poems written by Edith Sitwell and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 1957 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edith Sitwell written by Richard Greene and published by Virago. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 0 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.
Download or read book Today in the Taxi written by Sean Singer and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the passenger seat of Sean Singer’s taxicab, we witness New York’s streets livid and languid with story and contemplation that give us awareness and aliveness with each trip across the asphalt and pavement. Laced within each fare is an illumination of humanity’s intimate music, of the poet’s inner journey—a signaling at each crossroad of our frailty and effervescence. This is a guidebook toward a soundscape of higher meaning, with the gridded Manhattan streets as a scoring field. Jump in the back and dig the silence between the notes that count the most in each unique moment this poet brings to the page. “Sean Singer’s radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman’s, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive... I love in this work the sense that I am the grateful recipient of Singer’s jazzy curation as I move from page to page. Today in the Taxi is threaded through with quotes from Kafka, facts about jazz musicians, musings from various thinkers, from a Cathar fragment to Martin Buber to Arthur Eddington to an anonymous comedian. The taxi is at once a real taxi and the microcosm of a world—at times the speaker seems almost like Charon ferrying his passengers, as the nameless from all walks and stages of life step in and out his taxi. I am reminded of Calvino’s Invisible Cities, of Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn... Today in the Taxi is intricate, plain, suggestive, deeply respectful of the reader, and utterly absorbing. Like Honey and Smoke before it, which was one of the best poetry books of the last decade, this is work of the highest order.” —Laurie Sheck
Download or read book The Poetry of Dame Edith Sitwell written by Dame Edith Sitwell and published by Portable Poetry. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was born on 7 September 1887 in Scarborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Edith was the oldest child and only daughter of her wildly eccentric and unloving parents. Her father, believing she had a spinal deformation, imposed upon her a 'cure' which involved locking her into an iron frame. In 1913 Edith began to publish her poetry, her first was in the Daily Mirror; The Drowned Suns. Unconventional at best as a person her poems reflect this with her exotic costumes and dramatic style all hung on a six foot frame: many adored her, others thought her a poseur. In 1914, the 26-year-old Edith moved to a small, down at heel flat in Bayswater, which she shared with Helen Rootham, her governess since 1903. Between 1916 and 1921 she edited Wheels, an annual poetic anthology compiled with her brothers - a literary collaboration generally called "the Sitwells." Edith was engrossed by the distinction between poetry and music, and with Facade (1922), she created a series of abstract poems, the rhythms of which counter-parted those of music, set to music by William Walton. Facade was performed behind a curtain with a hole in the mouth of a painted face and the words were recited through the hole with the aid of a Sengerphone. The public were baffled by it. Edith spent her life unmarried, but in 1927 it is said she fell in love with the homosexual Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew. The relationship lasted until 1928, the same year that Rootham underwent operations for cancer. In 1929 she published Gold Coast Customs, a poem about the artificiality of human behaviour and the barbarism that lies beneath the surface. The poem was written in the rhythms of tom-toms and jazz. In 1932, Rootham and Edith moved to Paris, where they lived with Rootham's younger sister, Evelyn Wiel. With the Second World War Edith returned from France. In a house with no electricity she wrote by oil lamp. These poems include Street Songs, The Song of the Cold, and The Shadow of Cain, all of which garnered much public praise. However the London blitz poem "Still Falls the Rain" endures as her best loved poem. It was set to music by Benjamin Britten. She became a proponent and supporter of innovative trends in English poetry. Her flat became a meeting place for young writers including Dylan Thomas. In 1948 Edith toured the United States with her brothers, reciting her poetry and, notoriously, giving a reading of Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene. Edith became a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1954. In August 1955 she converted to Roman Catholicism. As a writer Edith claimed to only write prose for money and with titles such as English Eccentrics (1933), Victoria of England (1936), her novel, I Live under a Black Sun, based on the life of Jonathan Swift (1937) and two books about Queen Elizabeth I: Fanfare for Elizabeth (1946) and The Queens and the Hive (1962) she was very successful at that. Edith lived from 1961 until her death in a flat in Hampstead in London. As the subject of This Is Your Life in November 1962 she was surprised by host Eamonn Andrews on the stage of the BBC Television Theatre in London. Edith died of cerebral haemorrhage at St Thomas' Hospital on 9 December 1964 at the age of 77. She is buried in the churchyard of Weedon Lois in Northamptonshire.
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.
Download or read book frank sonnets written by Diane Seuss and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fa ade an Entertainment with Poems by Dame Edith Sitwell written by Edith Sitwell and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queens and the Hive written by Edith Sitwell and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Queens and the Hive" 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.
Download or read book The Outcasts written by Edith Sitwell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in London in 1962, this collection of Sitwell's later poetry contains "several pieces which show that the lyrical impulse of her early days was still alive to make new discoveries of great freshness and tenderness" - Dictionary of National Biography "Her mastery of the long line, the pause, of contrasting fullness and ghostliness of sound is as striking as ever. So is her high simplicity of spirit." -The Times Literary Supplement
Download or read book The Sleeping Beauty written by Edith Sitwell and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CLOWNS HOUSES written by Edith Dame Sitwell, 1887-1964 and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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:
Download or read book Edith Sitwell written by Richard Greene and published by Virago. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 374 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.
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell written by Edith Sitwell and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
