Word: osbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...APES OF GOD-Wyndham Lewis- McBride ($3). Though rumored to be aimed at the Sitwells (Edith. Osbert, Sacheverellj, Wyndham Lewis' Gargantuan satire carries poisoned arrows enough to riddle all the bohemians and neo-bohemians on earth. With a scalpel of wit in one hand, a cleaver of words in the other, the author lays open their pimplish coteries, shows them apish creatures loosely sexed. Wherever Art is, there are these Apes gathered. The fact that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length...
DUMB-ANIMAL?Osbert Sitwell?Lippincott...
England's Sitwell trio (Osbert, Edith, Sacheverell), sophisticated rather than passionate poets, conceal their artistry beneath Sitwellian artificiality that annoys many a plain person, delights their devotees and themselves. But occasionally, as in Brother Osbert's Dumb-Animal stories, humanity cracks the super-Etonian veneer, sentiment overcomes even a Sitwell and enables him to communicate with...
...Osbert Sitwell, polite writer, never prints an ill-bred remark, never lets his feelings run away with him. To many a critic he seems to lack the generosity of passion; but his chilly wit is often piercing. Of the playing fields of Eton he says: "But then one must remember, that which one did not realize at the time: education in Europe was, unconsciously, a preparation for death, not for life. Events proved it right. They died, as the saying goes, like gentlemen: which was the object of their education...
...Author. Edith Sitwell, sister of Osbert (TIME, March 3, 1930) and Sacheverell Sitwell, adult enfants terribles of literary England, is middleaged, skinny, wraithlike; "in early youth took an intense dislike to simplicity, morris-dancing and every kind of sport except reviewer-baiting, and has continued these distastes ever since." Other books: The Mother and Other Poems, Clowns Houses, Bucolic Comedies, Sleeping Beauty, Elegy on Dead Fashion...