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Selected Letters Of Edith Sitwell

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781844085088

Price: £14.99

ON SALE: 1st November 2007

Genre: Biography & True Stories / Biography: General

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Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was, through four decades, the most prominent and celebrated woman poet in Britain. Among the notable admirers of her work were Siegfried Sassoon, WB Yeats and Gertrude Stein, Stephen Spender and Marianne Moore. Just after her death, Allen Tate described her in The New York Times as ‘one of the great poets of the twentieth century’. Even as one allows for the ebb and flow of literary reputations, Edith Sitwell will have permanent claim on the attention of readers and literary scholars. She and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, were the focus of a movement in English Literature described as an ‘alternative Bloomsbury’. This volume includes unpublished letters to many significant figures, including WB Yeats, Bertrand Russell and Benjamin Britten. It also contains letters that illuminate Sitwell’s relations with other women writers, among them, Gertrude Stein and Rosamond Lehmann.
‘I am besotted with this dotty old bat. Britain’s most celebrated and eccentric female poet, she dashed off reams of witty, newsy, mischievous letters in exquisitely beautiful prose. Every letter is a gem’ – Val Hennessy (one of her top ten books for 1997), Daily Mail

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Amusing, painful, these letters are very entertaining
THE TIMES
Her letters are a vital expression of that personality - witty, prickly, affectionate, kind, snobbish yet vulnerable, imaginative and often over-the-top ... the letters make you laugh out loud
LITERARY REVIEW