(7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British
poet
and critic.
Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, the oldest child and only daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall
; he was an expert on genealogy and landscaping. Her mother was the former Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison, a daughter of the Earl of Londesborough and a granddaughter of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort
.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" — a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.