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Record 20628

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Now I'm reading Festivals of Fire, which I had sent for before I got your letter; it was most charming of you to offer to send it it to me, and I think it remarkable, and it is obvious that you are a real poet. As I said before, the rhythmical quality of "The Loosening" its fluidity and perfect control, was most remarkable, and I never doubted that you have a most remarkable mind; all I wanted was more sifting of the material. When I know Festivals of Fire properly, I shall write to you again...'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 16 Mar 1935
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: city: Paris
specific address: 129 Rue Saint-Dominique VIIe
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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: France
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Ronald Bottrall
Title: Festival of Fire
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1935
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20628  
Source - Print  
  Author: Edith Sitwell
  Editor: Richard Greene
  Title: Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1998
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 145
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Edith Sitwell, Richard Greene (ed.), Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell (London, 1998), p. 145, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20628, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

This is an extract from a lengthy letter to Ronald Bottrell in which Edith endeavours to explain and apologise for possible misconstruction of her review of his' Aspects of Modern Poetry'. She goes on to say that she will be asking the Editor of the London Mercury if he will allow her to review Bottrell's next book so that she can ' publicly clear up the muddled statement [she] made about [his] poetry.'

 

 

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