"Jane, Jane, tall as a crane," and the opening verse of Façade, her [Edith Sitwell's] collaboration with composer William Walton: "When/Sir/Beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in Hell ." Her poetry, heavily influenced by the Symbolists, has the jangling pulses of Stravinsky and the sharp angles of the cubists. Her themes are fairly conventional--the self, the war--but it is her abstract approach that is so arresting.Her life was marked by private kindness, public vituperation and unrequited passion.
from The Montreal Gazette: Living life 'with all flags flying'
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