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CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES (224 pp.) - Osbert Lancaster - Houghton Mifflin...
...criteria," says 40-year-old Artist Osbert Lancaster, the urbanely acid political cartoonist of London's Daily Express, "remain firmly Anglo-Saxon . . . [My] standards of judgment are always those of an Anglican graduate of Oxford with a taste for architecture, turned cartoonist, approaching middle age and living in Kensington...
...once sung so well. From England came the apocalyptic chants of Edith Sitwell, who had journeyed a long way from her early preciosities. Her Song of the Cold contained some good war poetry. (It was a year in which America became Sitwell conscious, and the touring Sitwells discovered America. Osbert Sitwell sketched an acid portrait of his delightfully eccentric father in Laughter in the Next Room; Sacheverell, youngest of the literary family, celebrated the minor arts of peace in The Hunters and the Hunted...
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...
...Osbert and Edith materialized in Manhattan last month, for a lecture tour. It was her first, his second appearance...