No False Modesty
Rosemary Hill: Edith Sitwell, 20 October 2011
Edith Sitwell: Avant-Garde Poet, English Genius
by Richard Greene.
Virago, 532 pp., £25, March 2011,978 1 86049 967 8 Show More
by Richard Greene.
Virago, 532 pp., £25, March 2011,
“... Glenway Wescott, who knew him for 30 years, described him to an earlier Sitwell biographer, John Pearson, as a ‘really terrible person’ and ‘psychopathological’. Greene, who has had access to the Sitwell-Tchelitchew correspondence, embargoed when Pearson was writing, has found nothing to contradict this verdict or his own summary of ... ”