Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell por Roger Fry.
Nascimento
7 de setembro de 1887

Scarborough
Morte
9 de dezembro de 1964 (77 anos)

Londres, Inglaterra
NacionalidadeInglaterra Inglesa
OcupaçãoPoetisa e crítica literária

Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (Scarborough, 7 de setembro de 1887 – 9 de dezembro de 1964) foi uma poetisa e crítica literária britânica.

Família Sitwell c. 1900, por John Singer Sargen (Edith é a de vermelho).

Edith Sitwell era a filha mais velha, irmã de Osbert e Sacheverell, do aristocrático e excêntrico Sir George Sitwell, quarto baronete de Renishaw Hall; era especialista em genealogia e paisagismo.

Sitwell publicou o seu primeiro poema The Drowned Suns («Os sóis afogados») no Daily Mirror em 1913 e, entre 1916 e 1921, editou Wheels («Rodas»).

Obras

Colectâneas de poesia

As colectâneas de poesia de Sitwell são:[1]

  • Clowns' Houses (1918)
  • Mother and Other Poems (1918)
  • The Wooden Pegasus (1920)
  • Façade (1922)
  • Bucolic Comedies (1923)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (1924)
  • Troy Park (1925)
  • Rustic Elegies (1927)
  • Gold Coast Customs (1929)
  • Collected Poems (1930)
  • Five Variations on a Theme (1933)
  • Street Songs (1942)
  • Green Song and Other Poems (1944)
  • The Song of the Cold (1945)
  • The Shadow of Cain (1947)
  • The Canticle of the Rose: Selected Poems 1920–1947 (1949)
  • Façade, and Other Poems 1920–1935 (1950)
  • Gardeners and Astronomers: New Poems (1953)
  • Collected Poems (1954)
  • The Outcasts (1962)

Outros

  • Alexander Pope (1930)
  • Bath (1932), um perfil da cidade por Beau Nash
  • The English Eccentrics (1933)
  • Aspects of Modern Poetry (1934)
  • Victoria of England (1936)
  • I Live Under a Black Sun (1937)
  • A Poet's Notebook (1943)
  • Fanfare for Elizabeth (1946), uma biografia de Isabel I
  • The Queens and the Hive (1962), uma biografia de Isabel I
  • Taken Care Of (1965), autobiografia
  • Mulheres inglesas no original English Woman

Referências

  1. ↑ A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry (Dowson and Entwistle 341)

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