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 ...

Fifty years ago, Edith Sitwell was one of the U.K.’s leading poets. Today no one reads her. Small wonder that Richard Greene, whose new biography is the first in 30 years, has titled its prologue ...

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 ...

Edith Sitwell gave the first public reading of her group of poems called “Facade,” to the music of William Walton, twenty-five years ago, at London’s Aeolian Hall. It was a memorable occasion and a ...

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 ...