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| edith sitwell dick and jane: Suddenly Speaking Babylonian Stephen Beal, 2004 Poetry. Stephen Beal is a native of Evanston, Illinois, who now makes his home in Colorado. A longtime editor and author of several nonfiction books, he turned to poetry relatively recently, but has made up quickly for lost time. His poems have appeared in such publications as Tri-Quarterly, Many Mountains Moving, and Hanging Loose, and his first collection, The Very Stuff, received the 1997 poetry award from The Colorado Center for the Book. Beal is also a fiber artist of international reputation. |
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| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry Jane Dowson, 2011-03-17 This Companion is aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets. It provides new approaches to a wide range of influential women's poetry, a chronology and guide to further reading. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: English Eccentrics Edith Sitwell, 2022-08-16 Edith Sitwell's 'English Eccentrics' stands out as a distinctively stylized historical account, brimming with the idiosyncratic quirks and peculiar anecdotes of England's most outlandish personalities. This work delves into the lives and habits of aristocrats, scholars, and solitary eccentrics alike, illuminating the peculiarly English trait of embracing individuality. Sitwell employs a vivid narrative prose that is both whimsical and erudite, providing readers with a colorful tableau of the English social landscape spanning several centuries. The book is not only a compendium of oddities but also an exploration of the oftentimes thin line between genius and madness, reflecting the larger cultural and intellectual ethos of its subjects' times. Edith Sitwell, an esteemed poet and critic herself, was no stranger to eccentricity with her own pronounced aesthete and avant-garde sensibilities. Her fascination with the extraordinary and the atypical—attributes she shared with the figures she profiles—fuel this work's creation. One could surmise that through penning 'English Eccentrics', Sitwell sought to find kindred spirits across the annals of history, providing a platform for their stories to be celebrated with empathy and wit. Her personal penchant for the irregularities that define human character adds a palpable authenticity to her chronicles. To the inquisitive reader with an appetite for the historically bizarre and the delightfully nonconformist, 'English Eccentrics' offers an enticing journey through the annals of English history. Sitwell's work is essential reading for anyone intrigued by the rich tapestry of human personality and the cultural heritage that fosters uniqueness. This study is not merely a gathering of curiosities but a testament to the enduring legacy of individualism and its role in the vivid narrative of English society. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Songs We Know Best Karin Roffman, 2017-06-13 The first biography of an American master The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery—the winner of nearly every major American literary award—reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one of the most original and unpredictable forces of the last century in arts and letters. Drawing on unpublished correspondence, juvenilia, and childhood diaries as well as more than one hundred hours of conversation with the poet, Karin Roffman offers an insightful portrayal of Ashbery during the twenty-eight years that led up to his stunning debut, Some Trees, chosen by W. H. Auden for the 1955 Yale Younger Poets Prize. Roffman shows how Ashbery’s poetry arose from his early lessons both on the family farm and in 1950s New York City—a bohemian existence that teemed with artistic fervor and radical innovations inspired by Dada and surrealism as well as lifelong friendships with painters and writers such as Frank O’Hara, Jane Freilicher, Nell Blaine, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Willem de Kooning. Ashbery has a reputation for being enigmatic and playfully elusive, but Roffman’s biography reveals his deft mining of his early life for the flint and tinder from which his provocative later poems grew, producing a body of work that he calls “the experience of experience,” an intertwining of life and art in extraordinarily intimate ways. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Modernist Fraud Leonard Diepeveen, 2019-02-05 Focusing on literature and visual art in the years 1910-1935, Modernist Fraud begins with the omnipresent accusations that modernism was not art at all, but rather an effort to pass off patently absurd works as great art. These assertions, common in the time's journalism, are used to understand the aesthetic and context which spawned them, and to look at what followed in their wake. Fraud discourse ventured into the aesthetic theory of the time, to ideas of artistic sincerity, formalism, and the intentional fallacy. In doing so, it profoundly shaped the modern canon and its justifying principles. Modernist Fraud explores a wide range of materials. It draws on reviews and newspaper accounts of art scandals, such as the 1913 Armory Show, the 1910 and 1912 Postimpressionist shows, and Tender Buttons; to daily syndicated columns; to parodies and doggerel; to actual hoaxes, such as Spectra and Disumbrationism; to the literary criticism of Edith Sitwell; to the trial of Brancusi's Bird in Space; and to the contents of the magazine Blind Man, including a defense of Duchamp's Fountain, a poem by Bill Brown, and the works of, and an interview with, the bafflingly unstable painter Louis Eilshemius. In turning to these materials, the book reevaluates how modernism interacted with the public and describes how a new aesthetic begins: not as a triumphant explosion that initiates irrevocable changes, but as an uncertain muddling and struggle with ideology. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Man Who Designed the Future B. Alexandra Szerlip, 2017-04-25 Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes. A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama, the prescient 1939 exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the not-too-distant 60s. In The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip reveals precisely how central Bel Geddes was to the history of American innovation. He presided over a moment in which theater became immersive, function merged with form, and people became consumers. A polymath with humble Midwestern origins, Bel Geddes’ visionary career would launch him into social circles with the Algonquin roundtable members, stars of stage and screen, and titans of industry. Light on its feet but absolutely authoritative, this first major biography is a must for anyone who wants to know how America came to look the way it did. |
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| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath Anita Helle, Amanda Golden, Maeve O'Brien, 2022-03-24 With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath provides the most comprehensive collection of contemporary scholarship on Plath's work. Including new scholarly perspectives from feminist and gender studies, critical race studies, medical humanities and disability studies, this collection explores: · Plath's literary contexts – from the Classics and the long poem to W.B Yeats, Edith Sitwell, Ruth Sillitoe, Carol Ann Duffy, and Ted Hughes · New insights from Plath's previously unpublished letters and writings · Plath's broadcasting work for the BBC Providing new approaches to her life and work, this book is an indispensable volume for scholars of Sylvia Plath. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography Sharon Ouditt, 2002-01-22 'They also serve who only stand and wait' The idea of there being a 'women's writing' during the First World War is often dismissed. The war, the story goes, was a masculine domain, and as women did not fight, it is also assumed that they were excluded from a war experience. This bibliography challenges that view by listing and annotating hundreds of published books, articles, memoirs, diaries and letters written by women during the First World War. Included are: * Virginia Woolf * Katherine Mansfield * G.B Stern * Brenda Girvin * known and unknown autobiographers and diarists * writers of pro and anti-war propaganda * journal and magazine articles * literary, cultural and historical criticism |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Sleeping Beauty Edith Sitwell, 1924 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry , 1994 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Behind the Lines Margaret R. Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, 1987-01-01 Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Modern British Literature Ruth Zabriskie Temple, Martin Tucker, 1966 Vol. 4, supplement, compiled and edited by Martin Tucker and Rita Stein. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Racechanges Susan Gubar, 2000-04-20 When the actor Ted Danson appeared in blackface at a 1993 Friars Club roast, he ignited a firestorm of protest that landed him on the front pages of the newspapers, rebuked by everyone from talk show host Montel Williams to New York City's then mayor, David Dinkins. Danson's use of blackface was shocking, but was the furious pitch of the response a triumphant indication of how far society has progressed since the days when blackface performers were the toast of vaudeville, or was it also an uncomfortable reminder of how deep the chasm still is separating black and white America? In Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture, Susan Gubar, who fundamentally changed the way we think about women's literature as co-author of the acclaimed The Madwoman in the Attic, turns her attention to the incendiary issue of race. Through a far-reaching exploration of the long overlooked legacy of minstrelsy--cross-racial impersonations or racechanges--throughout modern American film, fiction, poetry, painting, photography, and journalism, she documents the indebtedness of mainstream artists to African-American culture, and explores the deeply conflicted psychology of white guilt. The fascinating racechanges Gubar discusses include whites posing as blacks and blacks passing for white; blackface on white actors in The Jazz Singer, Birth of a Nation, and other movies, as well as on the faces of black stage entertainers; African-American deployment of racechange imagery during the Harlem Renaissance, including the poetry of Anne Spencer, the black-and-white prints of Richard Bruce Nugent, and the early work of Zora Neale Hurston; white poets and novelists from Vachel Lindsay and Gertrude Stein to John Berryman and William Faulkner writing as if they were black; white artists and writers fascinated by hypersexualized stereotypes of black men; and nightmares and visions of the racechanged baby. Gubar shows that unlike African-Americans, who often are forced to adopt white masks to gain their rights, white people have chosen racial masquerades, which range from mockery and mimicry to an evolving emphasis on inter-racial mutuality and mutability. Drawing on a stunning array of illustrations, including paintings, film stills, computer graphics, and even magazine morphings, Racechanges sheds new light on the persistent pervasiveness of racism and exciting aesthetic possibilities for lessening the distance between blacks and whites. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Say it Aloud Norman Hidden, 1972 An anthology of poems suitable for reading or speaking aloud under section headings: Shapes and sounds; Poems by children; When we were very young; Unwillingly to school; Grandpa traps owls; It gets awfully lonely; Now I choose these. |
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| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Publishers Weekly , 1895 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Reader's Companion to Twentieth-century Writers Peter Parker, Frank Kermode, 1995 Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in a Nutshell provides a concise overview of a popular therapeutic approach, starting with the ABCDE Model of Emotional Disturbance and Change. Written by leading REBT specialists, Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden, the book goes on to explain the core of the therapeutic process: - Assessment - Disputing - Homework - Working through - Promoting self-change. As an introduction to the basics of the approach, this updated and revised edition of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in a Nutshell is the ideal first text and a springboard to further study. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Maverick Thomas Harding, 2023-08-29 The captivating story of the famed publisher George Weidenfeld, from his struggles as an Austrian-Jewish refugee in London to his rise as a world-renowned literary figure. After arriving in London just before World War Two as a penniless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as Lolita, Double Helix, The Group, and The Hedgehog and the Fox, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, JD Salinger, and Edna O’Brien to Henry Miller, Harold Wilson, Saul Bellow, and Henry Kissinger. His role as publisher brought him into the orbit of influential figures such as George Bush, Ann Getty, Donald Trump, and LBJ. In this first biography, Thomas Harding provides a full, unvarnished, and at times difficult history of this complex and fascinating character. Throughout his long career, he was written about in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, and other publications. Was he, as described by some, the “greatest salesperson,” “the world’s best networker,” “the publisher’s publisher,” and “a great intellectual”? Was his lifelong effort to be the world’s most famous host a cover for his desperate loneliness? Who, in fact, was the real George Weidenfeld and how did he rise so successfully within the ranks of New York and London society? Drawing on author correspondence, internal memos, and other documents buried deep in the secret publishing files of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Harding crafts a portrait of the publisher's life that is inextricable from the efforts and intricacies of putting a book into the world. Structured around twenty books associated with George Weidenfeld, and intercut with explorations of contemporary concerns such as cancel culture, the right to publish, freedom of speech, and separating the art from the artist, The Maverick tells the captivating story behind the life of this iconic publisher. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Quotable A**hole Eric Grzymkowski, 2011-09-15 Whoever said, sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you never met an a**hole. Here, you'll find more than 1,200 of the most biting quotes, comments, and comebacks ever uttered, including: I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. --George Bernard Shaw Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. --Albert Einstein If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. --Muhammed Ali You won't just find quotes from typical a**holes like Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Mark Twain, either. You'll also see what happens when practically perfect folks like Walt Disney, Mahatma Ghandi, and Audrey Hepburn lose their cool. So embrace your dark side and get ready to enjoy every over-confident, over-blown, over-the-top a**hole comment you'll ever need. |
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| edith sitwell dick and jane: The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition) Christopher Hibbert, Ben Weinreb, John Keay, Julia Keay, 2011-09-09 ‘There is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its history’ Illustrated London News The London Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published. In its first new edition in over ten years, completely revised and updated, it comprises some 6,000 entries, organised alphabetically, cross-referenced and supported by two large indexes – one for the 10,000 people mentioned in the text and one general – and is illustrated with over 500 drawings, prints and photographs. Everything of relevance to the history, culture, commerce and government of the capital is documented in this phenomenal book. From the very first settlements through to the skyline of today, The London Encyclopaedia comprehends all that is London. ‘Written in very accessible prose with a range of memorable quotations and affectionate jokes...a monumental achievement written with real love’ Financial Times |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Debrett's illustrated baronetage and knightage (and companionage) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , 1879 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: The Windsor Peerage for 1890-1894 Edward Walford, 1893 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1 Carl Rollyson, 2023-08-14 Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in Ariel and as a brilliant forerunner of the feminist coming-of-age novel in her semiautobiographical The Bell Jar. Each new biography has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath’s life and influence. Sylvia Plath Day by Day, a two-volume series, offers a distillation of this data without the inherent bias of a narrative. Volume 1 commences with Plath’s birth in Boston in 1932, records her response to her elementary and high school years, her entry into Smith College, and her breakdown and suicide attempt, and ends on February 14, 1955, the day she wrote to Ruth Cohen, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, to accept admission as an “affiliated student at Newnham College to read for the English Tripos.” Sylvia Plath Day by Day is for readers of all kinds with a wide variety of interests in the woman and her work. The entries are suitable for dipping into and can be read in a minute or an hour. Ranging over several sources, including Plath’s diaries, journals, letters, stories, and other prose and poetry—including new material and archived material rarely seen by readers—a fresh kaleidoscopic view of the writer emerges. |
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| edith sitwell dick and jane: Camp Philip Core, 1984 Camp style, in behaviour, clothing, artistic output or emotions, has never been properly explored or defined. Jean Cocteau, as camp a figure as Paris has ever produced, said in Vanity Fair in 1922, 'I am a lie that tells the truth.' This paradox is the basis of Philip Core's personal definitions of camp, seen from the inside. His savagely witty depictions of more than two centuries of camp find it embodied in personalities and places, objects and artefacts. He has written a who's who and a what's what of camp, a deceptively descriptive and factual lexicon, allowing the reader to build up a kaleidoscopic picture of camp through the ages. It is complemented with 150 photographs and a vivacious foreword by England's foremost authority on surrealism, eccentric behaviour and hats, jazz singer George Melly.--From publisher description. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Subject Guide to Books in Print , 1997 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Publishers Weekly , 1976 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: BBC Year Book , 1947 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: BBC Handbook British Broadcasting Corporation, 1947 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Canadian Theses , 1968 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Who was who , 1972 |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: CD Review Digest , 1991 The guide to English language reviews of all music recorded on compact discs. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series Library of Congress. Copyright Office, 1954 Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: Current Biography Yearbook , 1968 The aim of Current Biography Yearbook is to provide reference librarians, students, and researchers with objective, accurate, and well-documented biographical articles about living leaders in all fields of human accomplishment. Whenever feasible, obituary notices appear for persons whose biographies have been published in Current Biography. - Publisher. |
| edith sitwell dick and jane: On Cassette , 1991 |
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May 23, 2025 · Edith Piaf (born December 19, 1915, Paris, France—died October 10, 1963, Plascassier, near Grasse [see Researcher’s Note]) was a French singer and actress whose …
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Edith Name Meaning, Origin, History, And Popularity
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The Tragic Death of French Cabaret Sweetheart Edith Piaf
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Edith - Name Meaning and Origin
The name Edith is of Old English origin and means "prosperous in war" or "wealthy in war." It is derived from the elements "ead," meaning "wealth" or "prosperity," and "gyð," meaning "war" …
Édith Piaf - Wikipedia
The name "Édith" was inspired by British nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed 2 months before Édith's birth for helping French soldiers escape from German captivity during World War I. [5] …
Edith Piaf | Biography & Facts | Britannica
May 23, 2025 · Edith Piaf (born December 19, 1915, Paris, France—died October 10, 1963, Plascassier, near Grasse [see Researcher’s Note]) was a French singer and actress whose …
Edith - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity - Nameberry
5 days ago · Edith is a girl's name of English origin meaning "prosperous in war". Edith is the 528 ranked female name by popularity.
Édith Piaf - Songs, Movies & Death - Biography
Apr 2, 2014 · It is believed she was named after the World War I British nurse Edith Cavell, executed for helping Belgian soldiers escape from German captivity.
Meaning, origin and history of the name Edith
Dec 1, 2024 · From the Old English name Eadgyð, derived from the elements ead "wealth, fortune" and guð "battle". It was popular among Anglo-Saxon royalty, being borne for example …
Edith Name Meaning, Origin, History, And Popularity
Sep 24, 2024 · The name Edith is an old-fashioned name that is seeing a revival in modern times amongst fashionable parents. Find more about it in this article.
The Tragic Death of French Cabaret Sweetheart Edith Piaf
French cabaret artist Edith Piaf is best known for her ballads about life, love, and sorrow. Sadly, her life story was full of illness, injury, addiction, and these factors took its toll on her body. She …
Edith Piaf Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life
May 22, 2024 · Edith Piaf was a French singer. She is considered the greatest icon of French popular music. Albeit her short physical stature, audiences the world over were amazed by her …
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Apr 26, 2024 · What is the meaning of the name Edith? Discover the origin, popularity, Edith name meaning, and names related to Edith with Mama Natural’s fantastic baby names guide.
Edith - Name Meaning and Origin
The name Edith is of Old English origin and means "prosperous in war" or "wealthy in war." It is derived from the elements "ead," meaning "wealth" or "prosperity," and "gyð," meaning "war" …
