Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was a poet whose deep reading in the English and European poets helped to give her verse its unique qualities of musicality, vigour and subtlety of rhythm, but its originality of image and symbol and its freedom from 'the dead and expected patterns' derive from her essentially individual imagination and freshness in experimentation. In this 1952 study, John Lehmann also considers Sitwell's work as a biographer, prolific anthologist, essaist, and critic. A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts.… (more)