The wooden Pegasus
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Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell was born in 1887 into an aristocratic family and, along with her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, had a significant impact on the artistic life of the 20s. She encountered the work of the French symbolists, Rimbaud in particular, early in her writing life and became a champion of the modernist movement, editing six editions of the controversial magazine Wheels. She remained a crusading force against philistinism and conservatism throughout her life and her legacy lies as much in her unstinting support of other artists as it does in her own poetry. Sitwell died in 1964.
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The wooden Pegasus - Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell
The wooden Pegasus
EAN 8596547088721
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
SINGERIE
THE AVENUE
MANDOLINE
COMEDY FOR MARIONETTES
(To I. C. P.)
FALSETTO SONG
EVENTAIL
FIFTEEN BUCOLIC POEMS
I WHAT THE GOOSEGIRL SAID ABOUT THE DEAN
II NOAH
III THE GIRL WITH THE LINT-WHITE LOCKS
IV THE LADY WITH THE SEWING MACHINE
V BY CANDLELIGHT
VI SERENADE
VII CLOWNS’ HOUSES
VIII THE SATYR IN THE PERIWIG
IX THE MUSLIN GOWN
X MISS NETTYBUN AND THE SATYR’S CHILD
XI QUEEN VENUS AND THE CHOIR-BOY (To Naomi Royde Smith)
XII THE APE SEES THE FAT WOMAN
XIII THE APE WATCHES AUNT SALLY
XIV SPRINGING JACK
XV TOURNEZ, TOURNEZ, BONS CHEVAUX DE BOIS
SEVEN NURSERY SONGS
I OLD LADY FLY-AWAY
II GREAT SNORING AND NORWICH
III FAT WILLIAM AND THE TRAINS
IV A PENNY FARE TO BABYLON
V THE BUTCHER’S SHOP
VI THE KING OF CHINA’S DAUGHTER
VII OLD KING PTOLEMY
PEDAGOGUES AND FLOWER-SHOWS
I
PEDAGOGUES AND FLOWER-SHOWS
II
SWITCHBACK
TRAMS
BANK HOLIDAY
I
BANK HOLIDAY
II
SMALL TALK I
SMALL TALK II
DANSONS LA GIGUE
MESSALINA AT MARGATE
PEDAGOGUES
SONG FROM THE QUEEN OF PALMYRA
THE CHOIR-BOY RIDES ON THE SWITCHBACK
APRICOT JAM
STOPPING PLACE
PORTRAIT OF A BARMAID
MATERIALISM; OR, PASTOR —— TAKES THE RESTAURANT CAR FOR HEAVEN
THAÏS IN HEAVEN
FOUR NOCTURNES
I PROCESSIONS
II GAIETY
III VACUUM
IV ET L’ON ENTEND À PEINE LEURS PAROLES
TREATS
I FUNERALS
II THE COUNTY CALLS
III SOLO FOR EAR-TRUMPET
ANTIC HAY
LULLABY
WATER MUSIC
THE WEB OF EROS
DROWNED SUNS
THE SPIDER
THE DRUNKARD
THE MOTHER
I
II
SINGERIE
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SUMMER afternoon in Hell!
Down the empty street it fell,
Pantaloon and Scaramouche—
Tongues like flames and shadows louche—
Flickered down the street together
In the spangled weather.
Flames, bright singing-birds that pass,
Whistled wares as shrill as grass
(Landscapes clear as glittering glass),
Whistled all together:
Papagei, oh Papagei,
Buy our greenest fruits, oh buy,
Melons misty from the bloom
Of mellow moons on some hot night,
Melting in the August light;
Apples like an emerald shower;
Nectarines that falling boom
On the grass in greenest gloom;
Peaches bright as parrot’s feather
Glistening from the moon’s bower;
Chequered like fritillaries,
Fat and red are strawberries.
Parrot-voices shrill together—
Now they pelt each monkey-face
(Pantaloon with simian grace)
From the soft gloom till they smother
Both the plumed head-dresses
With the green fruit-gems that glitter
(Twinkling sharp sounds like a zither).
Sharp each bird-tongue shrills and hisses,
Parrot-voices shrieking bane;—
Down comes every spangled shutter
With a sudden noise like rain.
THE AVENUE
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