"The Wooden Pegasus" by Edith Sitwell is a collection of poems from the early 1900s that shows off the author's special way of writing, using lots of vivid pictures and a slightly dreamy feel; the main idea is probably about mixing fun and gloom to look at what people go through, using make-believe to do it, with poems that jump between different places and ideas, mixing old stories with everyday stuff, and using a tone that's both joking and a bit sad, with strange characters to show the ups and downs of life, death, and wanting things, ranging from light songs to deep thoughts that bring you into her colorful, made-up worlds, and shows a one-of-a-kind artistic voice that echoes the push and pull between happiness and sadness, the real world and make-believe.
The wooden Pegasus
By Edith Sitwell
Enter a world where clowns and mythical creatures dance with reality, revealing the bittersweet truths of life in a collection of poems.
Summary
About the AuthorDame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.
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