Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known or her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and incomparable writings about English country houses and gardens. Here, for the first time, is an anthology that represents the full expanse of her interests and styles. Over half of the works, including intimate diaries and a dream notebook, have never been published. Edited by a foremost expert on the Bloomsbury circle, Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings provides the best and most accessible introduction to this unique writer.

A comprehensive bibliography for controversial feminist British author Sackville-West (1892-1962), who is also known as a devoted gardener and close friend of Virginia Wolfe. It includes such novels as The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and biographies like Pepita about her Spanish dancer grandm

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Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism.

A prominent figure of the Modernist movement, Vita Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, who published more than ten collections of poetry and numerous novels. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, ‘The Land’ and in 1933 for her seminal ‘Collected Poems’. She also wrote the extremely popular novels ‘The Edwardians’ and ‘All Passion Spent’, as well as scholarly non-fiction works. Sackville-West was the famous inspiration for the protagonist of ‘Orlando: A Biography’, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Sackville-West’s complete fictional works, with illustrations, many rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Sackville-West’s life and works * Concise introduction to Sackville-West’s life and poetry * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * The complete poetry for the first time in publishing history * Many rare texts digitised for the first time * Includes Sackville-West’s complete novels — available in no other collection * Features the complete short stories * A wide selection of non-fiction — explore the author’s diverse works * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Vita Sackville-West Brief Introduction: Vita Sackville-West Timgad (1900) Constantinople (1915) Poems of West & East (1917) Orchard and Vineyard (1921) The Land (1926) King’s Daughter (1929) Invitation to Cast Out Care (1931) Sissinghurst (1931) Collected Poems (1933) Solitude (1938) The Garden (1946) The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Novels Heritage (1919) The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1920) Challenge (1920) Grey Wethers (1923) The Edwardians (1930) All Passion Spent (1931) Family History (1932) The Dark Island (1934) Grand Canyon (1942) Devil at Westease (1947) The Easter Party (1953) No Signposts in the Sea (1961) The Shorter Fiction The Heir (1922) Seducers in Ecuador (1924) Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour and Other Stories (1932) The Non-Fiction Knole and the Sackvilles (1922) Passenger to Teheran (1926) Twelve Days (1928) Andrew Marvell (1929) Saint Joan of Arc (1936) Pepita (1937) Country Notes (1939) Country Notes in Wartime (1940) The Eagle and the Dove (1943) Nursery Rhymes (1947) Daughter of France (1959) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

The difficulty of a balanced viewpoint for some of her memoirists, a demanding enough task at the best of times, was compounded by the enthusiasm with which she sometimes donned a mask and by conversation whose notorious brilliance veered at moments towards the flamboyant, the wildly inaccurate, or the cruel.

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Where were the women of the so-called `Auden Generation'?During this era of rapidly changing gender roles,social values and world politics,women produced a rich variety of poetry.But until now their work has largely been lost or ignored;in Women's Poetry of the 1930s Jane Dowson finally redresses the balance and recovers women's place in the literary history of the interwar years.This comprehensive and beautifully edited collection includes: *Previously uncollected poems by authors such as Winifred Holtby and Naomi Mitchison *Poems which are now out of print,such as those by Vita Sackville-West and Frances Cornford *Poems previously neglected by poets including Ann Ridler and Sylvia Townsend Warner *An extensive critical introduction and individual biographies of each poet Poetry lovers,students and scholars alike will find Women's Poetry of the 1930s an invaluable resource and a collection to treasure.

Introduction: Hermes/Penelope -- 1. Exilic Wanderings: Cavendish and Burney -- 2. Composing the Self in Letters: Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark -- 3. "The African Wanderers": Kingsley and Lee -- 4. Woolf's Voyages Out: The Voyage Out and Orlando -- 5. Postmodern "Vessels of Conception": Brooke-Rose and Brophy -- Conclusion: "Questions of Travel."

Primarily a literary history, Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939 provides a timely discussion of individual women poets who have become, or are becoming, well-known as their works are reprinted but about whom little has yet been written. This volume recognizes the contributions, overlooked previously, of such British poets as Anna Wickham, Nancy Cunard, Edith Sitwell, Mina Loy, Charlotte Mew, May Sinclair, Vita Sackville-West and Sylvia Townsend Warner; and the impact of such American poets as H.D., Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore and Laura Riding on literary practice in Britain. This book primarily maps the poetry scene in Britain but identifies the significance of the network of writers between London, New York and Paris. It assesses women's participation in the diversity of modernist developments which include avant-garde experiments, quiet, but subtly challenging, formalism and assertive 'new woman' voices. It not only chronicles women's poetry but also their publications and involvement in running presses, bookshops and writing criticism. Although historically situated, it is written from the perspective of contemporary debates concerning the interface of gender and modernism. The author argues that a cohering aesthetic of the poetry is a denial of femininity through various evasions of gendered identity such as masking, male and female impersonations and the rupturing of realist modes.