Sacheverell Sitwell

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Sacheverell Sitwell (1897 – 1988) est un poète et essayiste anglais, frère cadet de Dame Edith Sitwell et de Sir Osbert Sitwell, eux-mêmes poètes. D'un style plus traditionnel que ses aînés, il a publié ses Selected Poems en 1948.

Connu pour ses récits de voyages et ses ouvrages sur l'architecture baroque, Sacheverell Sitwell est l'auteur de plusieurs livres de critique d'art consacrés à la peinture et à la musique, dont Mozart (1932), A Life of Liszt (1936), La Vie parisienne (1937) et Sacred and Profane Love (1940).

Il a suivi ses études à Eton College et à Balliol College (Oxford).

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The People's Palace (1918) poems
The Hundred and One Harlequins (1922) poems
Southern Baroque Art: a Study of Painting, Architecture and Music in Italy and Spain of the 17th & 18th Centuries (1924)
The Thirteenth Caesar (1924) poems
German Baroque Art (1927)
The Cyder Feast (1927) poetry
All At Sea: A Social Tragedy in Three Acts for First-Class Passengers Only (1927) with Osbert Sitwell
The Gothick North: a Study of Mediaeval Life, Art, and Thought.(1929)
Dr. Donne and Gargantua (1930) poems
Spanish Baroque Art, with Buildings in Portugal, Mexico, and Other Colonies (1931)
Mozart (1932)
Canons of Giant Art: Twenty Torsos in Heroic Landscapes (1933)
Conversation Pieces: a Survey of English Domestic Portraits and their Painters (1936)
Narrative Pictures: a Survey of English Genre and its Painters (1938)
German Baroque Sculpture (1938)
Roumanian Journey (1938)
The Romantic Ballet (1938) with C. W. Beaumont
Old Fashioned Flowers (1939)
Poltergeists: An Introduction and Examination Followed By Chosen Instances (1940)
The Homing of the Winds: and other passages in prose. Faber & Faber, London (1942)
Primitive Scenes and Festivals Faber & Faber, London (1942)
The Hunters and the Hunted (1948)
Selected Poems (1948)
The Netherlands; A Study of Some Aspects of Art, Costume and Social Life (1948)
Tropical Birds (1948)
Spain (1950)
Cupid and the Jacaranda (1952)
Fine Bird Books (1953) with Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher
Liszt (1955)
Denmark (1956)
Arabesque & Honeycomb (1957)
Journey to the Ends of Time, etc. (1959)
British Architects & Craftsmen: survey taste, design, styles 1600-1830 (1960)
Golden Wall and Mirador: Travels and Observations in Peru (1961)
Great Houses of Europe, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1964)
Monks, Nuns and Monasteries (1965)
Southern Baroque Revisited (1967)
Gothic Europe (1969)
A Background for Domenico Scarlatti, 1685-1757: Written for His Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary (1970)
Tropicalia (1971) poems
Agamemnon's Tomb (1972) poems
For Want of the Golden City (1973)
Battles of the Centaurs (1973)
Les Troyens (1973)
Look at Sowerby's English Mushrooms and Fungi (1974)
A Notebook on My New Poems (1974)
All Summer in a Day : An Autobiographical Fantasia (1976)
Placebo (1977)
An Indian Summer: 100 recent poems (1982) poems
Hortus Sitwellianus (1984) with Meriel Edmunds and George Reresby Sitwell
Sacheverell Sitwell's England (1986) edited by Michael Raeburn