Showing posts with label edith sitwell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label edith sitwell. Show all posts

Monday, March 29, 2010

Edith Sitwell


This isn’t really a post about Edith Sitwell, about whom I know next to nothing. This is about poems whose pleasures reside in the sounds and texture of the words themselves, rather than in the intellectual or emotional content of those words. The poem below the cut is a fine example of such a poem.