Evidence: | 'It was so charming of you to send me your anthology,..............It is particularly interesting to me, because, although your anthology and my second, and third(forthcoming) anthology cover the same period, we rarely cover the same ground. I am jealous, as well as happy, that you have included the four heavenly Keats Odes, and Shelley's "To Night", one of the loveliest of all poems, and the beauties from "Prometheus Unbound". I am especially delighted, too, with your Tennyson, because with the exception of "Tears, idle tears" we touch different ground again, and that means that, when I am travelling, if I take your anthology and my anthologies, I shall be rich with nearly all the beauties I could need.
We touch the same ground, again, in the inclusion of Rosetti's "The Woodspurge", but our choice of Christina Rosetti is different, for I have gone completely mad, and have included the whole of "Goblin Market".
Your anthology includes more poets than mine; your taste, I think, is more catholic. But under the influence of your anthology I am beginning to feel positively calm about Matthew Arnold - a state which I did not think would ever be mine, on that subject......'
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1932 and 31 Mar 1932 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: 22 Pembridge Mansions, Moscow Road |
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Reader: | Edith Sitwell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 7 Sep 1887 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Poet |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Hayward |
Title: | Nineteenth Century Poetry - An Anthology |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1932, London, Chatto and Windus ( Phoenix Library) |
Provenance: | owned Received as a gift from John Hayward |
Record ID: | 20138 | |
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Author: | Edith Sitwell | |
Editor: | Richard Greene | |
Title: | Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 133 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edith Sitwell, Richard Greene (ed.), Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell (London, 1998), p. 133, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20138, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
This is part of a letter dated 31st March 1932 written to John Hayward. Edith's references to her own anthologies might be said to be indicative of a little one-upmanship and there are hints of condescension in this letter. |
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