Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was an English poet and writer, and the most prominent of the three Sitwell siblings, all of whom made important contributions to the British literary scene of the early 20th ...

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Edith Sitwell is a “difficult” poet. Unlike the celtists of deliberate Opaqueness, hers is the legitimate and ultimately rewarding difficulty of a deep pool rather than the meaningless obscurity of a ...

ALEXANDER POPE—Edith Sitwell—Cosmopolitan ($4). Says Poet Edith Sitwell of Poet Pope: “I may say, with the deepest humility, what Pope is reputed to have said of Dryden: ‘Had I been born early enough, ...

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“Here’s fame,” the poet John Berryman said in 1948, as he showed off to his friends his invitation to the Gotham Book Mart cocktail party. The party honored visiting literary royalty Dame Edith ...

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