Sacheverell Sitwell

Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988) was an English writer whose poetry, travel books, and studies of architecture and the arts drew on European and Asian cultures.

Edith Sitwell: Edith Sitwell was an English poet, critic, and elder sister of Sacheverell Sitwell. His sister was his closest literary collaborator and a central figure in the family’s artistic life.
The Hundred and One Harlequins: The Hundred and One Harlequins is Sacheverell Sitwell’s 1922 poetry collection. This early collection shows his use of elaborate imagery and musical verse.
William Walton: William Walton was an English composer whose works included collaborations with the Sitwells. He set Edith Sitwell’s poetry to music, linking the family’s writing to modern British composition.
Art criticism: Art criticism is the interpretation and evaluation of artworks and artistic traditions. Sitwell helped bring historical art and architecture to a broad literary readership.
Osbert Sitwell: Osbert Sitwell was an English writer, elder brother of Sacheverell Sitwell, and the third member of the Sitwell literary trio. The brothers and Edith published and performed together as the Sitwells.
Southern Baroque Art: Southern Baroque Art is Sacheverell Sitwell’s study of Baroque art in southern Europe. It exemplifies his sustained writing on European art and its regional traditions.
Wyndham Lewis: Wyndham Lewis was a British painter and writer who founded the Vorticist movement. Lewis’s modernist circle provides context for the Sitwells’ early artistic associations.
Baroque architecture: Baroque architecture is an elaborate European architectural style that developed in the late sixteenth century and flourished in the seventeenth. His books helped sustain interest in Baroque buildings beyond standard national art histories.
Sitwell family: The Sitwell family is an English aristocratic family associated with several prominent twentieth-century writers. Sacheverell’s public identity was closely bound to his family’s literary reputation.
Spanish Baroque Art: Spanish Baroque Art is Sacheverell Sitwell’s book-length study of Spain’s Baroque art and architecture. The book connects his art criticism with his interest in Spanish culture.

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