Dame Edith Sitwell
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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.
Sitwell published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature.
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- A Morning Hymn, Z. 198: "Thou wakeful shepherd" - Version with Solo Piano - Realization of Piano Part by Benjamin Britten - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- If Music be the Food of Love, Z. 379a - Version with Solo Piano - Realization of Piano Part by Benjamin Britten - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- King Arthur, Z. 628, Act 2 Scene 2: No. 16, "How blest are the shepherds" - Version with Solo Piano - Realization of Piano Part by Benjamin Britten - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Canticle I "My beloved is mine", Op. 40: "Ev’n like two little bank-divided brooks" (Andante alla barcarola) - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Oedipus (Incidental Music), Z. 583: No. 2, Song, "Musick for a While" - Version with Solo Piano - Realization of Piano Part by Benjamin Britten - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Canticle II "Abraham and Isaac", Op. 51: "Abraham, my servant, Abraham" - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Alleluia - Version with Solo Piano - Realization of Piano Part by Benjamin Britten - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Canticle III "Still Falls The Rain", Op. 55 (Slow and distant) - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Let The Night Perish, Z. 191, "Job's Curse" - Version with Solo Piano - Realization of Piano Part by Benjamin Britten - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- If Music be the Food of Love, Z. 379c - Version with Solo Piano - Realization of Piano Part by Benjamin Britten - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- An Evening Hymn, Z. 193: "Now, now that the sun hath veil’d his light" - Version with Solo Piano - Realization of Piano Part by Benjamin Britten - Hymnos: Purcell Realizations and Canticles by Benjamin Britten - Dame Edith Sitwell
- I'm Through with You Forever - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- In the Wilderness - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- The Troll's Nosegay - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Mike and Mandy - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Traveller's Curse - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Song: Lift Boy - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- In the Night - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- On a Child Born Dead - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- The Shot - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- In a Foreign City - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- San Paolo Fuori Le Mura, Rome - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Fountain - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Lullaby - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Dirge for the New Sunrise - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Heart and Mind - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Scotch Rhapsody - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Sheep Dog Trials - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- View from an Upper Window - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- The Gate - Contemporary English Literature, Vol. 1: Poetry of Robert Graves, Elizabeth Jennings, Edith Sitwell, C. Day Lewis - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Thomas Hardy: Snow in the Suburbs / Shut out That Moon / At a Lunar Eclipse / An Ancient to Ancients - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Bridges: Cheddar Pinks - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- A.E. Housman: Tell Me Not Here - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- W.B. Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole / The Second Coming / After Long Silence - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Rudyard Kipling: The Craftsman - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- W.H. Davies: Leisure / Kingfisher / Sleep - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Walter de la Mare: All That's Past / The Railway Junction / Silver / Song of the Mad Prince / The Owl - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- John Masefield: The Setting of the Windcock - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Edward Thomas: The Gallows - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- D.H. Lawrence: Piano / Snake - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- James Elroy Flecker: The Old Ships - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Andrew Young: Cuckoos / The Men / Wood and Hill / In the Fallow Field / On Middleton Edge / The Burnt Leaves / The Prospect of Death - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Siegfried Sassoon: At the Grave of Henry Vaughan - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Edwin Muir: The Horses - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
- Edith Sitwell: Most Lovely Shade / Scotch Rhapsody / Sir Beelzebub - Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry, Pt. 1 - Dame Edith Sitwell
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