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Poet, novelist, biographer and essayist. She published a number of poems during the 1920s which exploited the musical qualities of the language. Some of them were set to music by Sir William Walton and entitled 'Facade'. Her biographical studies included that of Alexander Pope and 'The English Eccentrics', and her...

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. have you ever looked at many portraits, photography or paintings of Edith Sitwell? what strikes you? Edith 1918, by Roger Fry The woman, yes-She was extraordinary. Her features were captivating, perhaps not beautiful, perhaps not even close. Miss Sitwell did manage to make the list of DEVASTATING BEAUTIES compiled by little augury from a field of blogging aesthetes earlier in the year. After looking at photographs inching over the Sitwell profile, the deep set eyes draped by the shadow of…

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