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Edith Sitwell Collected Poems - Hardcover

Sitwell, Edith Louisa

 
9781585678419: Edith Sitwell Collected Poems

Synopsis

A complete anthology of the British modernist's poetic works explores the ways in which her writing challenged formal conventionalism and class issues, in a volume that includes Façade, Clowns' Houses, and Gold Coast Customs.

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About the Author

Dame Edith Sitwell Collections of her work include Clowns' Houses (1918), Rustic Elegies (1927), Gold Coast Customs (1929), The Song of the Cold (1948), Facade, and Other Poems, 1920-1935 (1950), Gardeners and Astronomers (1953), and The Outcasts (1962). Her Collected Poems first appeared in 1930. Her most famous long poem, Facade, included in the Collected Poems, characterized by ragtime rhythms and abstract word patterns, was set to music by William Walton and first read by her in 1922.

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