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NZ poet edits Spanish poetry collection - Beattie's Book Blog by Graham Beattie (2013/06/18 14:48)
The book titled 'Palabras Prestadas', which means 'Donated Words', celebrates the first year of an online poetry project of the same name run by Charles. ... Edith Sitwell; I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty.
Poet Laureate Award - call for nominations - Beattie's Book Blog by Graham Beattie (2013/06/14 18:59)
During their tenure the Laureate is supported to participate in events that promote the writing and reading poetry, and to produce a book of poetry. ... Edith Sitwell; I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty.....But I am ...
poetry | mlewisredford by m lewis redford (2013/06/12 12:59)
poetry. by m lewis redford. poetry. focused even fifties' social classing into the background as Ginsberg asked, 'may we own you?' of Edith Sitwell a shock? a silence? the gloved raised palm. Allen Ginsberg wormhole: babble
Simon Thomas on failing with poetry | Vulpes Libris by Guest (2013/06/10 00:37)
Maybe a bit squishy too. Edith Sitwell's poetry is amazing when taken apart because you can hear and see the extraordinary things she does with sound while they make no sense at all on the surface. Jackie. June 10, 2013.
"Tweedland" The Gentlemen's club: English Ecentrics / Edith Sitwell. by Jeeves (2013/06/06 04:18)
When his daughter had gained an international reputation as a poet he still maintained that 'Edith made a great mistake in not going in for lawn tennis.' In defence, Dame Edith developed a regal and intimidating presence, ...
Façade - An Entertainment | Tenor Madness | All things Tenor ... by Matt London (2013/06/04 15:43)
A classical cabaret is the best way I would descirbe William Walton's "Façade - An Entertainment". Based around a set of short poems of the same name by Edith Sitwell. The poems are recited over an assorted mix of music ...
Stanley Elkin, my main man | Margaret Langstaff by margaretjeanlangstaff (2013/06/03 20:40)
He FLOORED me though when he said astonished and pleased that my poetry reminded him of DAME EDITH SITWELL'S, “so jeweled, musical and resonant.” I almost died on the spot. Who? That histrionic aristocratic Brit ...
Edith, Elizabeth and I: Queen Elizabeth the 1st and my invisible ... by Jane Postlethwaite (2013/06/03 07:49)
Edith, Elizabeth and I. 'I was a poet, an editor, a 'Dame'... so what exactly are you doing here?' 'Edith, Elizabeth and I', is a theatre project in development, created and devised by Jules Craig and Simon Magnus. It is inspired by the life and works of the poet Edith Sitwell, with focus on her biographies of Elizabeth the 1st. It is also a play about the responsibility of telling someone elses story, the attempt to tell it truthfully and the inevitability that the narrators own story will ...
the véhicule press blog: The Greatest English Poet You Haven't ... by Carmine Starnino (2013/06/02 12:49)
The Greatest English Poet You Haven't Heard Of? Bw_lynettebylewis. Daniel Westover takes a ... Her work was championed by Edith Sitwell and Dylan Thomas, who was best man at her wedding. T. S. Eliot thought she was a ...
The Greatest “English” Poet you (Really) Haven't Heard of [by Daniel ... by Daniel Westover (2013/05/29 10:47)
Her work was championed by Edith Sitwell and Dylan Thomas, who was best man at her wedding. T. S. Eliot thought she was a tremendous writer, and he published both of her volumes at Faber. Wyndham Lewis (of BLAST ...
May 20, 2013: BCB Classical Hour goes to the seaside | Karl Dallas ... by Karl Dallas (2013/05/20 08:30)
Classical Hour goes to the seaside, starting with Dame Edith Sitwell reading one of her poems from Façade, by William Walton, in a modern recording, followed by her original 78 rpm recording, conducted by Constant ...
Southwold Concert Series | Claire Bloom performs Façade | The ... by TheSuffolkCoast (2013/05/18 02:28)
Façade is a bit of a musical phenomenon. It sets Edith Sitwell's eccentric poetry to be 'recited' over a series of jazzy musical numbers so popular in the 1920s, when it was composed. Sitwell's poetry doesn't exactly tell a story ...
Charles Causley | Neil Rathmell by nrathmell (2013/05/15 01:00)
Edith Sitwell, in her introduction to Union Street, the first slim volume of Causley's poetry, made up of poems published previously in pamphlets and periodicals, writes that 'Mr Causley is completely individual' and that his ...
Creative Arts Media: Edith Sitwell : #Poetry | via #PoetryFoundation by Creative Arts Media (2013/05/05 20:46)
Edith Sitwell : #Poetry | via #PoetryFoundation. Edith Sitwell : The Poetry Foundation. posted by Creative Arts Media at 8:46 PM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook ...
Poetry by Edith Sitwell | russellboyle.com by russellboyle (2013/04/23 14:04)
and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises. Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell. Still Falls the Rain by Edith Sitwell ...
Poetry for Sunday: Edith Sitwell | Under the Sign of Sylvia II by ellenandjim (2013/04/14 05:34)
LancretBlindmansBluffblog · Nicholas Lancret (1690-1743), Blind Man's Bluff. For today the under-rated Edith Sitwell: Dark Song. The fire was furry as a bear. And the flames purr… The brown bear rumbles in his chain
Competition hopes to boost poetry recitals (From Bucks Free Press) by unknown (2013/04/07 08:00)
Anna Winter, a student from Wycombe Abbey School, won the competition. She recited Frog's Fate by Christina Rossetti and Heart and Mind by Edith Sitwell. Anna will now participate in the regional finals, where former Poet ...
National Poetry Month | bloomsburyreader by bloomsreader (2013/04/04 03:52)
Here at Bloomsbury Reader we thought we would take the liberty of sharing with you the work of some of our very own poets. The likes of Cecil Day Lewis, Martin Armstrong and Edith Sitwell, will enliven your senses and help ...
Film Threat - Still Falls The Rain by Amy R. Handler (2013/04/02 12:33)
Written by Dame Edith Louise Sitwell in the year 1940, Still Falls the Rain is also a poem about the London Blitz during WW2. The work has intense religious and visual overtones, and Sitwell's first stanza sets the scene for the ...
Facade – An Entertainment by William Walton - Green Man Music by Green Man (2013/03/31 17:59)
The composer is William Walton. The poet is Edith Sitwell. Both were so good at their respective professions that they were honoured. Walton became Sir William, whist Sitwell became Dame Edith. This throws up a subject ...
Holy Week Day 6; Jesus Arrested, Tried and Killed by deBBie (2013/03/30 02:49)
(exerpts from “Still Falls the Rain” by Dame Edith Sitwell). No words can describe what happened that day. Poets come closer to sapping its meaning. And Gethsemane foretold it. Try spending a good portion of the day in ...
POETRY: Still Falls the Rain, by Dame Edith Sitwell | The Value of ... by thevalueofsparrows (2013/03/28 11:30)
falls the Rain / In the Field of Blood where the small hopes breed and the human brain / Nurtures its greed, that worm with the brow of Cain. / Still falls the Rain / At the feet of the Starved Man hung upon the Cross. / Christ that ...
Brief Blog Reviews III: Isola di Rifiuti - Speculum Criticum Traditionis by skholiast (2013/03/18 15:55)
I had not known, for instance, and would probably not have guessed, that Ronald Johnson, second-generation Black Mountain poet, so esteemed Dame Edith Sitwell's self-introduction, "Some Notes on My Own Poetry" as a ...
1893 – Birth of British poet, Wilfred Owen. | Louise M. H. Miller ... by aroundtheredmap (2013/03/18 04:13)
Only five of his poems were published during his lifetime, but he is remembered today due to others, including Siegfried Sassoon and Edith Sitwell, who edited his poems and published them posthumously in Poems (1920), ...
Isola di Rifiuti: Notebook (Ronald Johnson, Edith Sitwell, &c.) by John Latta (2013/03/04 08:21)
Notes, Poetics, Trouvailles, Photographs, Malarkey, & Guff. John Latta is the author of Breeze (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003) and Rubbing Torsos (Ithaca House, 1979). E-mail: lattaj@umich.edu ... And Edith Sitwell, whose “Some Notes on My Own Poetry” Johnson called “a text to shove alongside Charles Olson's Projective Verse and Louis Zukofsky's anthology A Test of Poetry.” Sitwell: Seeing the immense design of the world, one image of wonder mirrored ...
Must Have Needle and Thread: Rumination on Sewing and Poetry by Darby (2013/03/02 10:37)
I am taking a creative writing class, a literary theory class and an intro to poetry class, and so I have been reading a lot more and sewing a lot less. I have a blouse ... The Lady With The Sewing-Machine by Dame Edith Sitwell.
Avant-garde artiste and overnight sensation: The life of poet D.. by unknown (2013/02/23 01:04)
Ham&High : In the latest of our series exploring the lives and times of those commemorated with blue plaques, Adam Sonin traces the career of poet Dame Edith Sitwell. Comments ... Her father is reported to have asked, “And ...
William Butler Yeats on Modern Poetry: A Rare 1936 BBC ... by Maria Popova (2013/02/20 04:45)
... audio of Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, and Adrienne Rich — Yeats discusses the tendency of poets from older traditions to criticize the modern school and points to Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) as an echelon of modern ...
Progressive Stupidity — GraniteGrok by Rick Olson (2013/02/19 19:09)
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping Rabbits…” —Dame Edith L. Sitwell, Poet and Critic The Union Leader featured excerpts from the NRA's Armed Citizen as an Opinion Column ...
The Dame | Slow Lane Life II by rachel (2013/02/15 08:31)
I had not been aware then of her status as a poet, and knew nothing of her importance in literary London in the 1920s. How little I knew, how much I missed! edithsit Dame Edith Sitwell…. So we googled her, read excerpts ...
EYE-GROTTO: Poem by David Grove (2013/02/08 15:12)
Rothko may not be far off the mark: if you described this as "abstract poetry," I wouldn't gainsay you.(c.f. Edith Sitwell's Façade.) "a sideshow a succulent spider forsook via sliding glass doors": obviously the side-spide-slide ...
onsite review - miscellanea - Edith Sitwell: poet, brick by stephanie (2013/01/18 10:08)
Edith Sitwell: poet, brick. Date Friday, January 18, 2013 at 9:08AM. The extremely generous Edith Sitwell, modernist poet, interviewed by the BBC in 1959: And a younger version, in 1928: Dame Edith Sitwell, 1928. National Portrait Gallery, London. Author stephanie | Comment 2 Comments | Share Article. tagged Tag identity, Tag modernism, Tag performance, Tag writing. Print View Printer Friendly Version. Email Article to Friend ...
Quote - My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and ... by Quotations Book (2012/12/20 02:00)
Famous Quote on Quotations Book - My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - by Sitwell, Dame Edith. ... about Sitwell, Dame Edith ... Edith Sitwell (September 7, 1887 December 9, 1964) was a British poet and critic.
2012 Poets and Poetry Sites | Poethead by C. Murray (2012/12/11 06:52)
Posted on 12/11/2012 Tagged Alice OswaldCarol Ann DuffyEavan BolandEdith SitwellGuernicapoetryPoetry FoundationPoetry IrelandReview Comments8 Comments / anoramcgaha17 / C. Murray / C. Murray / Bad to Verse.
Queers in History: December 6th in Queer History by Terence (2012/12/06 01:00)
English writer,the brother of Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, who first began to write poetry while serving in the trenches during the First World War. Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893 – 1978) UK. English novelist ...
A History of Food in 100 Recipes - Julia's Pantry by juliaspantry (2012/11/14 14:01)
I really enjoyed reading your latest blog about the history of food and wonder if William Sitwell is related to the British poet Dame Edith Sitwell (grandson, perhaps?) who was around the time of the “Bloomsbury Set”, Virginia ...
Issa's Untidy Hut: China Cat Sunflower: Issa's Sunday Service, #141 by Issa's Untidy Hut (2012/10/28 07:30)
According to the Dead lyric site, Robert Hunter, the Dead's lyricist, mentions Sitwell's influence on the lyrics, with a special mention of the following poem, "Polka": Polka Dame Edith Sitwell 'Tra la la la la la la la. La La! See me ...
Poetry in Translation (CXXXVI): Edith SITWELL (1887-1964 ... by editor (2012/10/24 10:00)
Edith Sitwell by Roger Fry. Poetry in Translation (CXXXVI): Edith SITWELL (1887-1964) – “Answers”, “Răspunsuri”. Answers (Edith Sitwell, 1887-1964). I kept my answers small and kept them near; Big questions bruised my mind but still I let. Small answers be a bulwark to my fear. The huge abstractions I kept from the light; Small things I ... Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-§964). Tags: "Centre for Romanian Studies - London"·"Constantin Roman"·"Edith SITWELL"·"Poetry in ...
Still Falls the (Deadly Drone-Delivered) Rain by Robin Bates (2012/10/21 18:53)
But the rest of us should be speaking up. Here's Sitwell's poem, with its pounding, hallucinatory rhythm: Still Falls the Rain (The Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn). By Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell. Still falls the Rain— Dark as the ...
“Still Falls the Rain” by Edith Sitwell « Brandon Koppers by bkoppers (2012/10/16 19:00)
“Still Falls the Rain” by Edith Sitwell uses nature imagery, in particular rain, to describe a graveyard. The imagery that Sitwell uses draws the reader in, which is why I chose this particular poem. Images like the rain and “the ...
The King of China's Daughter by Edith Sitwell, my favourite poem ... by parissasheerin (2012/10/16 11:48)
live with purpose, love with passion, & dream with reckless abandon.
Edith Sitwell, Yodeling Centaurs | Parlare Pazzo - Pazzo Books by Tom (2012/09/21 09:42)
I was going to slap $8 on it and put it on the shelf – times being what they are for the Sitwells – when out popped a funny promotional photo of Dame Edith in one of her get-ups. Two copies of the same photo, actually, both ...
CLASSICAL PREVIEW: Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival | City ... by roccitynews (2012/08/01 07:12)
WXXI's Julia Figueras will read Edith Sitwell's poetry as part of “Façade,” the author's collaboration with composer William Walton, performed Sunday in the final concert of the 2012 Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival.
poetandgeek.com: Edith Sitwell live by Poetandgeek.com (2012/07/07 02:27)
Edith Sitwell live. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887 – 1964) was a English poet, patron and critic. Listen to a slightly atypical work read slightly atypically here ...
Midsummer, Music, Morris - ArtsJournal by Deborah Jowitt (2012/07/05 06:08)
However, as anyone who has read Sitwell's poems or heard the 1970 recording of Façade by Dame Edith herself, tenor Peter Pears, and the English Opera Ensemble knows how wonderfully eccentric the texts are and how ...
Some More Edith Sitwell Chinoiserie Poetry - China Rhyming by Paul French (2012/05/16 16:13)
In the early springtime after their tea, / Through the young fields of the / springing Bohea, / Jemima, Jocasta, Dina and Deb / Walked with their father / Sir Joshua Jebb - / An admiral red, whose only notion, / (A butterfly poised ...
As Promised More Chinoiserie Poetry – Edith Sitwell weighs in… by Paul French (2012/05/16 02:31)
The King of China's daughter She never would love me, / Though I hung my cap and bells upon / Her nutmeg tree. / For oranges and lemons / The stars in bright blue air (I stole them long ago, my dear) / Were dangling there.
Crumbling Into Dust: Dame Edith Sitwell by Martyn Cross (2012/04/23 13:02)
The exhibition 'Crumbling Into Dust' drew primarily, but not exclusively, from the long forgotten 'English Eccentrics', a 1933 publication by the avant-garde poet/genius Edith Sitwell. Subtitled 'A gallery of weird and wonderful ...
'Green Geese', by Edith Sitwell | Poethead by C Murray (2012/02/18 01:22)
'I wanted to read or hear the narrative of someone else – a woman and a poet – who has gone here and been there.' Eavan Boland (by C. Murray)
Caricature Corner: Dame Edith Sitwell by douce (2012/02/15 10:25)
Dame Edith Sitwell had a classic face that inspired many artist including myself. She was a bit of a poet and she lectured extensively but was mostly known for her striking features. Posted by douce at 9:25 AM. Labels: dame ...
My Secret by Charles Simic - The New York Review of Books by unknown (2012/02/10 12:00)
However, I haven't heard of other poets composing in bed—although what could be more natural than scribbling a love poem with a ballpoint pen on the back of one's beloved? True, there was Edith Sitwell, who supposedly ...
freckleface: Edith Sitwell, my favourite poet by freckleface (2012/02/09 09:22)
Edith Sitwell, my favourite poet. When I say that, it doesn't actually mean that I am an afficianado of poetry, rather that she did poetry and I like it better than any other I happen to have come across. I like her earlier work best of ...
Isola di Rifiuti: Edith Sitwell Notes by John Latta (2012/02/01 07:28)
One oughtn't, apparently, go athwart Dame Edith. If critic F. R. Leavis, in the wake of Sitwell's 1930 Collected Poems, hinted that “the Sitwells belong to the history of publicity, rather than of poetry,” Sitwell herself seemingly ...
Visit Frederick and Feather Your Nest | Roaming the Planet by Elaine Jean (2012/01/24 19:30)
The British poet Dame Edith Sitwell declared that, “winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a good friend's hand and for a talk beside the fire. It is the time for home.” A trip to Frederick can help ...
"Tweedland" The Gentlemen's club: Her nose was as sharp as a pen. by Jeeves (2012/01/19 00:36)
Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius. By Richard Greene. Feb 17th 2011 in The Economist DAME EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964) proclaimed that she was not eccentric, just “more alive than most people…an ...
BRIAN SIBLEY : his blog: SITWELL BY SIBLEY by Brian Sibley (2012/01/17 17:01)
Here is a caricature I made in my late teens of the poet (and glorious eccentric) Dame Edith Sitwell... I think, when I made this cartoon, I had only recently discovered Facade: An Entertainment, the work that Dame Edith created ...
'Song' by Edith Sitwell | Poethead by C Murray (2012/01/07 03:32)
'I wanted to read or hear the narrative of someone else – a woman and a poet – who has gone here and been there.' Eavan Boland (by C. Murray)
Esoteric Or Eccentric, Edith 'Got It Right' & Was Spot On With Her ... by NR (2011/12/22 15:06)
In the introduction to 'The Canticle of the Rose' British poet Dame Edith Sitwell wrote: "At the time I began to write, a change in the direction, imagery and rhythms in poetry had become necessary, owing to the rhythmical ...
Dress-down Friday: Edith Sitwell | Strange Flowers by James Conway (2011/12/09 10:00)
The vision that emerges at the other end of this highly plausible chain of events might well look something like the extraordinary English poet Edith Sitwell, who died on this day in 1964. “Why not,” reasoned Sitwell, “be oneself ...
Siren's Heart...Marilyn in Purgatory - Backstage by Robert Windeler (2011/10/10 02:05)
The poet Dame Edith Sitwell was not a great English actress; I think they mean Dame Edith Evans, a rough contemporary of Sitwell's. Mistakes like these are unforgivable, as are mispronunciations of Elia Kazan's first name ...
Conquering Writer's Block | Sabina Nore by Sabina (2011/09/30 07:40)
Dame Edith Sitwell When poet Dame Edith Sitwell was a young girl growing up in Victorian England, her parents would lock her into an iron frame to straighten out her spine. Sitwell despised them for it and she rarely spoke to ...
“Wheels” – Boring yet Strangely Insightful | Modern Poetry ∫ The ... by Rachel (2011/09/13 15:57)
Discouraged by all of the depressing Tennyson imitations, I was about to give up on the content of Wheels when I found “The Mother” by Edith Sitwell. The poem itself consists of twenty stanzas of four lines each, all following ...
When the Poets Speak | Miss Darcy's Library by missdarcyslibrary (2011/08/28 16:40)
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, painted in 1915 by Roger Fry (Image courtesy of Wikipedia). Edith Sitwell ... Further Reading: those who are interested can visit the Edith Sitwell page on the Poetry Foundation website. I also found ...
Gotham Book Mart Party for Sir Osbert & Dame Edith Sitwell - Digital ... by Jonathan Dembo (2011/07/14 05:32)
... scene was the Gotham Book Mart — New York City's most famous bookstore. The occasion was to welcome the poets, Sir S.W. Osbert Sitwell and his sister, Dame Edith Sitwell, to the United States to do a series of readings.
Review: Edith Sitwell: Avant garde poet, English genius ... - Maclean's by Nicholas Kohler (2011/06/16 06:25)
Edith Sitwell: Avant garde poet, English genius Fifty years ago, Edith Sitwell was one of the U.K.'s leading poets. Today no one reads her. Small wonder that Richard Greene, whose new biography is the first in 30 years, has ...
Bytes: Quote: Edith Sitwell by BytesMaster (2011/05/31 11:31)
Dame Edith Sitwell (1887 – 1964) was an English poet and critic. With angular features and 183cm (6') tall, she was even more of a standout in a crowd by her manner of dress: she often wore gowns of brocade or velvet with ...
Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius With Author Richard ... by Miriam (2011/05/30 13:23)
Edith Sitwell said of herself that she was not eccentric, just "more alive than most people...an unpopular electric eel in a pool...of catfish." The last major biography of Edith Sitwell was Victoria Glendinning's A Unicorn Among ...
fabyqyku: Edith Sitwell was known for her poetry and witticisms ... by Onesiwetuk (2011/05/21 19:17)
Edith Sitwell was known for her poetry and witticisms. Montreal Gazette. Edith Sitwell's poetry was startling and hypnotic. Her brilliance was hailed when she burst on the scene with her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell in the ...
Art Contrarian: Molti Ritratti: Dame Edith Sitwell by Donald Pittenger (2011/05/13 02:32)
Molti Ritratti: Dame Edith Sitwell. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), poet, critic, female component of a trio of artsy siblings well connected to the English upper crust, did not escape the portrait painter's brush as can be seen below.
The Oxonian Review » A High Altar on the Move by a_barker (2011/05/01 16:05)
Edith Sitwell: Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius Richard Greene Edith Sitwell: Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius Virago, 2011 544 Pages £25. ISBN 978-1860499678 … … The odd lazy and spiteful review is to be expected ...
Edith Sitwell and the English Eccentrics « The Dabbler by Slightly Foxed (2011/04/25 23:07)
When his daughter had gained an international reputation as a poet he still maintained that 'Edith made a great mistake in not going in for lawn tennis.' In defence, Dame Edith developed a regal and intimidating presence, ...
Serenade, Any Man to Any Woman, a transcription of an Edith ... by poethead (2011/03/26 02:05)
'I wanted to read or hear the narrative of someone else – a woman and a poet – who has gone here and been there.' Eavan Boland (by C. Murray)
Edith Sitwell and “Fearful Symmetry” - The Educated Imagination by Michael Happy (2010/12/08 22:00)
... Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell, ed. Richard Greene (London: Virago Books, 1997), 294. Dear Miss Sitwell: Thank you very much for The Shadow of Cain, a very lovely, haunting, and almost unbelievably suggestive poem.
Sunday Snippet: Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell « Beyond the Rhetoric by Michael Kwan (2010/12/05 02:00)
Perhaps it is because Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887 – 1964) came from a place of privilege that she has this kind of opinion on the matter. A British poet and critic, Sitwell wrote on the artificiality of human behavior, the ...
mabhekaphansi: Edith Sitwell ... Poet Extraordinaire. Her ... by mabhekaphansi (2010/11/24 06:05)
Edith Sitwell ... Poet Extraordinaire. Her groundbreaking music style is now copied everywhere, every day. ... in what we call .... RAP! DAME EDITH SITWELL WAS THE WORLD'S FIRST RAPPER. Posted by mabhekaphansi at ...
Intelliblog: POSTCARD FROM ADELAIDE by Nicholas V. (2010/11/17 19:47)
Dame Edith Sitwell Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, on 7th September 1887 the only daughter of the eccentric Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall. She had two younger brothers, Osbert (1892-1969) and Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988) both distinguished authors, ... In 1948 Sitwell toured the United States with her brothers, reciting her poetry and giving a reading of Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene, which brought her great notoriety.
Dame Edith Sitwell | Poets Read Poetry by pamelapearce (2010/10/28 08:38)
Dame Edith Sitwell / We felt no need to understand this in the traditional sense. Frank commented on the emotional richness of the descriptions; Jo enjoyed its great sounds and we all agreed that it was a beautiful poem in an ...
“A huge old baby vulture” | Strange Flowers by James Conway (2010/09/07 14:11)
I couldn't very well let the day pass without at least a brief mention of English poet and author Edith Sitwell, who was born on this day in 1887. Sitwell did, after all, ... I too raise a glass to the dear old Dame. Sometimes when I ...
Pop Culture Institute: Remembering... Dame Edith Sitwell by michael sean morris (2010/09/07 04:10)
Writer and critic Edith Sitwell wrote poetry (including Still Falls The Rain, appropriately enough for the day about the London Blitz) for love, but wrote nonfiction (including two studies of Elizabeth I - also entirely appropriate for ...
Edith Sitwell: Lady Gaga 1.0 | cellar door by dedalus9 (2010/07/08 21:35)
Edith Sitwell: Lady Gaga 1.0. 9 July 2010 § Leave a Comment. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) – poet, critic, performance artist. Sitwell published a collection of poems called Facade, beginning in 1918. In 1922, she worked with the composer and ...
The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog: José Garcia Villa by greenintegerblog (2010/05/10 09:26)
Dame Edith Sitwell had taken up his cause and recommended him as “A poet with a great, even an astonishing, and perfectly original gift.” Villa also corresponded with and ultimately met regularly with the poet E. E. ...
poem analysis: Still Falls the Rain by Edith Sitwell | Showyourfeel's ... by showyourfeel (2010/04/28 07:03)
Kalian kenal nama Edith Sitwell? Perempuan ini adalah salah satu penulis di abad ke-20. Salah satu puisinya yang membuat saya tertarik adalah puisinya yang berjudul Still Falls the Rain. Puisi ini di kenal sebagai puisi ...
The Books: “The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary ... by sheila (2010/04/05 06:07)
Still falls the Rain— / Dark as the world of man, black as our loss— / Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails / Upon the Cross. / Still falls the Rain / With a sound like the pulse of the heart that is changed to the hammer- ...
Food for Poems: Edith Sitwell by Becky (2010/03/29 06:27)
Edith Sitwell. This isn't really a post about Edith Sitwell, about whom I know next to nothing. This is about poems whose pleasures reside in the sounds and texture of the words themselves, rather than in the intellectual or ...
Edith Sitwell « Wunderbuzz | Celebrating Inspiring Women by Signe Kassow (2009/11/12 09:41)
When I went to my local magazine pusher; Artwords Bookshop in Shoreditch I brought home with me Encens Magazine #24 and on the first page there was a quote from the famous poet Edith Sitwell. The quote said: I admire ...
Louise Nevelson ~ Arnold Scaasi, Arnold Newman and Edith Sitwell by LaValle Linn (2009/06/16 05:41)
Dame Edith Sitwell was one of Louise Nevelson's favorite poets. Her Façade suite of 1967 was created in homage to Sitwell who died in 1964. It is comprised of twelve prints that involve photography, silkscreen, and collage ...
Northrop Frye - The Anatomy Of Criticism: NOTES by Alfred E. Newman (2009/02/19 01:00)
Cf. Dame Edith Sitwell's poem, "The Bee Oracles." The old theory of "primates" in the various kingdoms is connected with this symbolic use of typical representatives. p. 145, line 37 "burning man." Cf. D. H. Lawrence's remarks on vermilion ...
Tasha's Daily Dose of Poetry: Aubade by Dame Edith Sitwell by Tasha (2008/05/14 09:33)
JANE, Jane, Tall as a crane, The morning light creaks down again; Comb your cockscomb-ragged hair, Jane, Jane, come down the stair. Each dull blunt wooden stalactite. Of rain creaks, hardened by the light, Sounding like ...
IDLE SPECULATIONS: Still falls the Rain. by terry (2008/01/29 13:57)
One can hear an original recording of Dame Edith Sitwell reciting the poem at The Poetry Archive The Blitz in London was the genesis of the poem. This is Sitwell`s powerful response to the events in 1940. Sitwell described ...
Poetry Moment: Interlude by Edith Sitwell by Clarica (2007/12/28 00:35)
Interlude by Edith Sitwell. Amid this hot green glowing gloom. A word falls with a raindrop's boom... Like baskets of ripe fruit in air. The bird-songs seem, suspended where. Those goldfinches—the ripe warm lights. Peck slyly at ...
sonnets at 4 a.m.: Happy Birthday, Dame Edith Sitwell by greg rappleye (2007/09/07 01:45)
Dame Edith Sitwell died at the age of 77 on December 9, 1964. Here's a poem by Dame Edith that seems appropriate, given the aristocratic but eccentric hour of the day: FOUR IN THE MORNING Cried the navy-blue ghost
Poetry quotes and quotations - Best Quotes Poems by unknown (2007/07/05 12:21)
Charles Baudelaire. The freedom of poetic license. Cicero. A poem is no place for an idea. Edgar Watson Howe. My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. Edith Sitwell. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Brooklyn Arden: The Quote File: Poetry by Cheryl (2007/04/21 10:16)
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful ... like a bouillon cube: You carry it around and then it nourishes you when you need it. – Rita Dove Poetry is the deification of reality. — Edith Sitwell Poetry is a rich, ...
Strictly old skool! | Music | guardian.co.uk by John Moore (2007/01/30 07:41)
Rap music was invented in England by Dame Edith Sitwell in 1922 when, perched atop a stepladder, she recited the poems of Facade through a megaphone over the musical accompaniment of her homeboy Sir William ...
English Eccentrics by Dame Edith Sitwell - On the trail of Mad Jack ... by Annette (2005/10/30 16:20)
A poet and literary critic, Edith Louisa Sitwell(1887-1964) "was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, of aristocratic but eccentric parentage of Lord George Sitwell and ex-socialite Lady Ida Sitwell of Renishaw Hall. She would later ...
Yorkshire: The Bronte sisters and beyond - The Word Travels by unknown (2005/10/21 11:11)
The county has many more literary associations, including Caedmon, the first English poet, Laurence Sterne, Edith Sitwell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker (author of Dracula), and Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath – not forgetting that this part of ...
Masterpiece and Sitter: Sargent and The Sitwells – Edith Sitwell ... by Web Art Academy (2005/04/02 17:00)
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The Wondering Minstrels: Still Falls the Rain -- Edith Sitwell by Sitaram (2005/01/13 06:37)
Edith Sitwell ... Unfortunately nothing else that Sitwell ever wrote comes, in my opinion, even close to this (after I read this poem I went out and bought the selected works - I was bitterly disappointed). See for example the other ...
The Chris Saliba Web Experience: The poetry of Edith Sitwell by Chris Saliba says....... (2004/08/20 22:47)
T.S Eliot derided Edith Sitwell's poetry as 'garden gods and mandolins'. No doubt she must have frothed at the mouth when she heard this description of her work. She was famous for her literary feuds, and took many a writer ...
The Wondering Minstrels: Sir Beelzebub -- Edith Sitwell by Sitaram (2001/07/26 02:41)
A poem a day, complete with analysis, criticism, biographical info, literary anecdotes, trivia, and our own skewed sense of humour :-). Newer Post Older ... Sir Beelzebub -- Edith Sitwell. Guest poem submitted by Mike Christie: ...

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Spear's Summer Dinner at Belgraves - Spear's WMS (2013/06/11 04:50)
Spear's Summer Dinner at BelgravesSpear's WMSWilliam Sitwell also spoke about his storied family, which includes 'the first English rapper', his great-aunt Edith Sitwell; he recited one of her swift-beat tongue-twister poems as evidence. After dessert had been served, Spear's deputy editor ...
The stately home hidden away in the countryside that sits well with grand ... - Derby Telegraph (2013/06/06 13:53)
The stately home hidden away in the countryside that sits well with grand ...Derby TelegraphThe only child of Lady Sitwell and the late Sir Reresby, Alexandra is the granddaughter of well-known writer Sacheverell Sitwell. She is also the great-niece of Osbert Sitwell and the notoriously eccentric poet and wit Dame Edith Sitwell, who completed ...and more »
The rapping Edith Sitwell - who knew? - Evening Standard (2013/06/06 07:24)
Evening StandardThe rapping Edith Sitwell - who knew?Evening StandardWilliam Sitwell, editor of Waitrose Kitchen, was meanwhile bigging up his great-aunt, the poet Edith Sitwell, as the first rapper, repeating a tongue-twisting poem of hers and declaring that she was “better than 50 Cent”. Comments. Share Share this ...
Curious Flights celebrates the Britten centennial with lesser-known compositions - Examiner.com (2013/06/05 08:00)
Curious Flights celebrates the Britten centennial with lesser-known compositionsExaminer.comThe text comes from “The Raids, 1940, Night and Dawn,” a section from Edith Sitwell's The Canticle of the Rose evocative of the London Blitz. Each stanza of Sitwell's poem is introduced by a horn fanfare and sung by the tenor accompanied only by piano.and more »
The Week in Petaluma: May 26-June 2 - Petaluma Argus Courier (blog) (2013/05/25 10:59)
Petaluma Argus Courier (blog)The Week in Petaluma: May 26-June 2Petaluma Argus Courier (blog)The Schoenberg is a work for voice and chamber ensemble based on poems by Albert Giraud; the Walton is an entertainment for reader and chamber ensemble, featuring the poetry of Edith Sitwell. Tickets are $15-$20 15 and available by calling 763-8920 or ...

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