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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic. Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, the only daughter of the eccentric Sir George Sitwe...
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Being the first child of Sir George Sitwell and Lady Ida, she was born on September 7, 1887. Edith Sitwell was the daughter of a prestigious earl, but this did not mean that she was any happier because of her aristocratic surroundings.
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In the introduction to The Canticle of the Rose British poet Dame Edith Sitwell wrote: "At the time I began to write, a change in the direction, imagery and rhythms in poetry had become necessary, owing to the rhythmical flaccidity, the verbal deadness, the dead and expected patterns, of some of the poetry...
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An angular, aristocratic woman, 6 ft (183 cm) tall, Dame Edith Sitwell was famous for her wit and her eccentric appearance. Her poetry, strongly influenced by the French symbolists, ranges from the artificial and clever verse of her early years to the deeper and more religious poems of her maturity.
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