Taken Care Of (Audible Audio Edition) Edith Sitwell Helen Lloyd Audible Studios Books
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Dame Edith Sitwell died while this autobiography was in the course of printing. One of the last acts of her life was to approve the 'specimen page' from the printer. She did not live to correct her proofs and what, if any, changes she might have made is a matter for conjecture. This audiobook, as she wrote it, must now stand as the last prose work to come from a great writer of the last century and a wise, witty and compassionate woman. 'I trust', she wrote, 'that I have hurt nobody.' Dame Edith was much more than one of the leading English poets of her lifetime. Long, long before the age of television introduced the synthetic, professional 'personality', she was a personality without the inverted commas, and thus became a familiar figure to a public far wider than the readership of her poetry, criticism and essays. With her remarkable brothers, she stood for certain important and lasting I qualities in the artistic life of the nation-for the war against philistinism, for a progressive outlook that in its day seemed, and was, rebellious, and yet for a spirit of continuity and tradition in art that has become apparent to the layman only in the perspective of time. This sense of tradition and respect for the past was by no means incompatible with a degree of eccentricity-which gives Taken Care Of its remarkable and unique flavour.
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was born into an aristocratic family and, along with her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, had a significant impact on the artistic life of the 20s. She encountered the work of the French symbolists, Rimbaud in particular, early in her writing life and became a champion of the modernist movement, editing six editions of the controversial magazine Wheels. She remained a crusading force against philistinism and conservatism throughout her life and her legacy lies as much in her unstinting support of other artists as it does in her own poetry.
Taken Care Of (Audible Audio Edition) Edith Sitwell Helen Lloyd Audible Studios Books
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Taken Care Of (Audible Audio Edition) Edith Sitwell Helen Lloyd Audible Studios Books Reviews
I really loved this book! I live not too far away from the Sitwell family home at Renishaw but though I had visited the house often, didn't know a great deal about Edith ... other than that she was a renowned eccentric and a rather strange looking woman, especially in later life.
Her childhood in an aristocratic and totally unloving family was an absolute nightmare, the poor child was unwanted, unloved and treated terribly by her parents. She found solace in her extraordinary intelligence and writing talent ... and though I must admit, she does go on an awful lot about her poetry ... the story of her life, the people she knew and the age in which she lived, is beautifully captured and faithfully written in this truly fascinating and moving book.
Her account of a day in her life when in London, being constantly interrupted by telephone calls, visitors, letters, and a collection of life's eccentrics is laugh aloud funny ... then when she writes of her trip to Hollywood and her visiting the 'wrong side of the tracks' - the terrible slums of the 1930s is one of the saddest and most pitiful and powerful pieces of writing I have ever read.
There is humour, humility and great insight and perception here. A truly great mind and an exceptional writer.
This books is mostly twaddle. Sitwell indulges her over-active ego in something that certainly is not an autobiography. These are a series of essays on various topics, mostly very boring. She has one chapter that is a rant about modern vulgarity. Among other things, she thinks pajama parties are vulgar. The chapter is unintentionally rather funny though one does not want to read it in detail. There are a few good British insults here such as the host who tells his guest--"You must visit me again when you have less time." Now that you have read this, you don't need to buy the book.
Brilliant writer and good thoughts to share.
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