It is one of the continuous and unique joys of my life, granting permission for performances of Edith Sitwell’s poems. Dame Edith, who died in 1964, five years before I was born, was an eccentric, ...

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 ...

DAME EDITH SITWELL (1887-1964) proclaimed that she was not eccentric, just “more alive than most people…an unpopular electric eel in a pool…of catfish”. If not eccentric, she was certainly gloriously ...

THE SONG OF THE COLD (113 pp.)—Edith Sitwell— Vanguard ($2.75). A CELEBRATION FOR EDITH SITWELL (144 pp.)—Edited by José Garcia Villa—New Directions ($1.50). England’s fabulous Sitwells (Osbert, Edith ...

TAKEN CARE OF by Edith Sitwell. 239 pages. Arheneum. $5.95. “Oh, why don’t they bury us?” sighs Dame Edith Sitwell in the final chapter of these memoirs, completed shortly before her death last ...

Edith’s eccentricity, not to mention that of her brothers and parents, may have come from the fact that the Sitwell family included among their ancestors not only kings of France and the English ...