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...SONG OF THE COLD (113 pp.)-Edith Sitwell- Vanguard...
...CELEBRATION FOR EDITH SITWELL (144 pp.)-Edited by José Garcia Villa-New Directions...
England's fabulous Sitwells (Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell), now on a visit to the U.S.,* are fast becoming a contemporary legend. Brother Osbert has already distilled four bestselling books out of the way he remembers his father and the family's idiosyncrasies. Now that Miss Sitwell's recent poetry (as well as a series of critical tributes) is being published in America, U.S. readers can see for themselves why sister Edith has become one of England's most highly regarded living poets...
...poems were hardly congenial to U.S. tastes. One critic thought of them as an artificial enchanted garden in which a rather nervous and overbred young lady trembled in a "trance of sensuous receptivity." Though brilliantly done, her first poems were excessively, lushly contrived. But as her work developed, another Edith Sitwell emerged, sensitive to human waste and moral agonies. In a play fragment which suggests something of Greek tragedy, she wrote such grandly simple lines as these...
Employment information was distributed to all Radcliffe Seniors yesterday under the direction of Mrs. Edith G. Stedman, head of the Annex Placement Bureau...