Dame Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

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Edith Sitwell (September 7, 1887 - December 9, 1964) was a British poet and critic. Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, of aristocratic but eccentric parentage of Lord George Sitwell and ex-socialite Lady Ida Sitwell of Renishaw Hall. She would later claim that she was descended from the Plantagenets. She had two younger brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Her relationship with her parents was stormy at best, especially when her father locked her into an iron frame to "cor.. Continue..

Some of Dame Edith Sitwell Poems

Still Falls the Rain

When Cold December

Bells Of Gray Crystal

Four in the Morning

By The Lake

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