Word: osbert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sold scarcely 10,000 copies in the U.S. But in recent years, he has posthumously acquired a band of devoted disciples. Among his current admirers are Edmund Wilson ("His books are extremely intellectual and composed with the closest attention: dense textures of in direction that always disguise point"), Sir Osbert Sitwell, who compares his style to "silver cobwebs," and Poet John Betjeman, to whom Firbank is "a jewelled and clockwork nightingale...
...this ancient act of lese majesty, Dame Edith took pen in blue-veined hand, rattled her Tibetan bracelets and administered a crushing snub to Villiers David. Wrote she: "I am surprised that after your insolent references to myself, Sir Osbert and Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell [her younger brother] made in verse some years ago, you should have the impudence to invite me to waste my time at your show...