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Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Richard Greene is Professor of English at Toronto University and a renowned biographer. Klappentext 'A wonderful new biography . . . Brilliant, wise, funny and affectionate. It is perfection, actually' Roger Lewis, Daily Mail A strange combination of kindness and cruelty, courage and duplicity, simplicity and artifice - Edith Sitwell was undoubtedly eccentric and savagely amusing. But Sitwell is a writer who matters - enormously. And as a poet, the most significant events in her life were the poems. It is thirty years since a biography of this important poet last appeared. It is time to look again at Edith Sitwell. 'Sitwell is important: a modernist pioneer; a glorious example of the outsider life well led...This book contains so much that is new - Greene has had access to Sitwell's vast correspondence with the painter Pavel Tchelitchew, with whom she had an unreciprocated, non-physical love affair - and will no doubt be considered definitive' Rachel Cooke, Observer 'Greene has made a convincing case for her peculiar genius. This is excellent, particularly in its analysis of Edith's poetry and her literary relationships' Sarah Bradford, Literary Review 'Greene takes pains to show us the private Sitwell, her loyalty and sympathy, her gentleness and generosity, her loneliness and vulnerability.' Deborah Longworth, THES 'Glows with loving admiration for her generous spirit, fierce sense of vocation, and shameless, irrepressible quirkiness . . . Richard Greene is an intelligent, sympathetic writer.' Richard Davenport-Hines, Sunday Telegraph* A brilliant and revealing new biography of the renowned - and controversial - poet Edith Sitwell, out now in paperback Zusammenfassung * A brilliant and revealing new biography of the renowned - and controversial - poet Edith Sitwell, out now in paperback

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Authors Richard Greene
Publisher Virago Press Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.03.2012
 
EAN 9781860499685
ISBN 978-1-86049-968-5
No. of pages 544
Dimensions 161 mm x 199 mm x 38 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography: writers

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