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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, DBE became a proponent and supporter of innovative trends in English poetry and opposed what she considered the conventionality of many contemporary backward-looking poets. Her flat became a meeting place for young writers whom she wished to befriend and help: these later included Dylan Thomas and Denton Welch. She also helped to publish the poetry of Wilfred Owen after his death.
The arts are life accelerated and concentrated. In the Augustan age... poetry was... the sister of Architecture; with the romantics and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature. It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
Sitwell published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship.
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish. Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why not try to look like a Pekingese?
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