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Dame Edith Sitwell

Female : Poet. Sister of Osbert and Sacheverell. Experimenter with Verse form
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Scarborough, Yorkshire

Date of Birth : 1887 Date of Death : 1964 Age : 77

Other Work : Edited the annual "Wheels" 1916-21

Education : Privately educated
1915-1920
The Mother & Other Poems
(1915 Blackwell) - 500
[It's said that 200 were pulped]
Offered in 2002 for £1450
Twentieth Century Harlequinade & Other Poems
(1916 Blackwell) - with Osbert Sitwell. 500
(Ed & IN) Wheels (1916-21 Blackwell) - 6 vols
Clowns' Houses
(1918 Blackwell, Oxford) - 750
The Wooden Pegasus
(1920 Blackwell) - 750
Children's Tales from the Russian Ballet
(1920 Leonard Parsons) - I de B Lockyer

1921-1925
(Contributes to) "Wheels" (6th Cycle) (1921 C W Daniel, London)
Facade
(1922 Favil Press, London) - 150 signed. Set to music by William Walton
The Russian Ballet Gift Book
(c1922 Leonard Parsons, London)
[Revised edition from 1920]
Bucolic Comedies
(1923 Duckworth)
The Sleeping Beauty
(1924 Duckworth)
Troy Park
(1925 Duckworth)
Poor Young People & Other Poems
(1925 Fleuron) - with O & S Sitwell
Poetry and Criticism
(1925 Hogarth Press) (1926 Holt)

1926-1930
Augustan Books of Modern Poetry
(Selected Poems) (1926 Benn)
Elegy on Dead Fashion
(1926 Duckworth) - 225
Rustic Elegies
(1927 Duckworth) (1927 Knopf)
Five Poems
(1928 Duckworth) - 275 signed
Popular Song
(1928 Faber, Ariel Poem) Large Paper Ed 500 Signed - Edward Bawden
Gold Coast Customs & Other Poems
(1929 Duckworth)
The Collected Poems
(1930 Duckworth/Houghton Mifflin) - 320 signed
Alexander Pope
(1930 Faber) - 220 Ltd Ed
(Ed) The Pleasures of Poetry : A Critical Anthology (1930-2 Duckworth) - 3 vols
(1934 Duckworth) - Single volume

1931-1935
In Spring
(1931 PP, Armstrong, London) - 290 signed Edward Carrick engravings
Epithalamium
(1931 PP, Duckworth) - 100 signed Ltd Ed
Jane Barston 1719-1746
(1931 Faber) - 250 Signed R A Davies
Bath
(1932 Faber)
The English Eccentrics
(1933 Faber) (1933 Houghton Mifflin) (1957 Vanguard Press)
Five Variations on a Theme
(1933 Duckworth)
Aspects of Modern Poetry
(1934 Duckworth)

1936-1940
Selected Poems with an Essay
(1936 Duckworth)
Victoria of England
(1936 Faber)
I Live Under a Black Sun
(1937 Gollancz)
Trio - Dissertations on Some Aspects of Natural Genius
(1937 Macmillan)
- with Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell
Mauretania
(1940) - with Oosbert Sitwell
Poltergeists
(1940 Faber) - with Osbert Sitwell
Sacred and Profane Love
(1940) - with Osbert Sitwell
Poems Old and New
(1940 Faber)
(Ed) Edith Sitwell's Anthology (1940 Gollancz)

1941-1945
(Ed) Look ! The Sun : An Anthology of Poetry (1941 Gollancz)
Street Songs
(1942 Macmillan)
English Women
(1942 Collins Britain in Pictures Series)
A Poet's Notebook
(1943 Macmillan)
(Compiled by) Planet and the Glow-Worm : A Book for the Sleepless (1944 Macmillan 6/-)
Green Song & other Poems
(1944 Macmillan)
The Song of the Cold
(1945 Macmillan)
The Weeping Babe : Motet for Soprano Solo and Mixed Choir
(1945) - Music by Michael Tippett

1946-1950
Fanfare for Elizabeth
(1946 Macmillan)
The Shadow of Cain
(1947 John Lehmann)
A Notebook on William Shakespeare
(1948 Macmillan)
The Canticle of the Rose : Selected Poems 1920-47
(1949 Macmillan) (1949 NY)
(Ed) A Book of Winter (1950 Macmillan)
Facade & Other Poems 1920-35
(1950 Duckworth)
Poor Men's Music
(1950 Fore Publications Key Poets No 1, London)

After 1951
(Ed) The American Genius : An Anthology of Poetry, with Some Prose (1951 John Lehmann)
Selected Poems
(1952)
(Ed) A Book of Flowers (1952)
Gardeners and Astronomers
(1953 Macmillan 8/6)
Collected Poems
(1957 Macmillan)
(Ed) The Atlantic Book of British and American Poetry (1959 Gollancz) - 2 vols
(Ed) Poems of Our Time 1900-1960 (Supplement only) (1959)
The Outcasts
(1962 Macmillan)
(Ed) Swinburne : A Selection (1960)
The Queen of the Hive
(1962 Macmillan) (1962 Little Brown)
Taken Care Of : An Autobiography
(1965 Hutchinson) (1965 Atheneum)
Selected Letters
(1970 Vanguard NY) (1970 Macmillan) - Edited by John Lehamnn and Derek Parker
Fire of the Mind : Selections
(1976) - Edited by Elizabeth Salter & Allanah Harper
Collected Poems
(1983 Macmillan £5.95)

READING
R L Megroz : The Three Sitwells : A Biographical & Critical Study
(1927 Richards Press)
A Rutherston & Thomas Balston : Sitwelliana 1915-1927 : Being a Handlist of Works
by the Sitwells
(1928 Duckworth)
C Bowra : Edith Sitwell
(1947)
(Ed) Jose Garcia Villa : A Celebration for Edith Sitwell - Essays (1948 New Directions)
M Wykes-Jones : Triad of Genius
(1953)
G Singleton : Edith Sitwell - The Hymn to Life
(1960)
Richard Fifoot : A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert & Sacheverell Sitwell
(1963) (1971 OUP. 2nd Ed)
R Mills : Edith Sitwell
(1966)
Elizabeth Salter : The Last Years of a Rebel - A Memoir of Edith Sitwell
(1967 Bodley Head)
[Salter had been her secretary]
John Brophy : Edith Sitwell - The Symbolist Order
(1968)
John Pearson : The Sitwells - A Family Biography
(1978 NY)
Elizabeth Salter : Edith Sitwell
(1979 Oresko, London)
Geoffrey Elborn : Edith Sitwell - A Biography
(1981 Sheldon Press, SPCK £10)
Victoria Glendinning : Edith Sitwell - A Unicorn Among Lions
(1981 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £9.95)
(Ed) Richard Greene : Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell (1997 Virago £20)

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