Left Hand, Right Hand!, Introduction (1945).
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Osbert Sitwell: Citations en anglais
Quoted by George Orwell in Tribune, December 31, 1943.
Referring to the Baedeker Blitz: a series of German air raids on English cities of historic and architectural interest.
"When First the Poets Sung", line 34 (1927).
“Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.”
The Scarlet Tree, Bk. IV, ch. 1 (1946).
Left Hand, Right Hand!, Bk. II, ch. 6.
Of the portrait-painter John Singer Sargent's relationship with his clients.
Left Hand, Right Hand!, Bk. II, ch. 6.
Of the Edwardian age.
"At the House of Mrs. Kinfoot", line 49 (1919).
"When First the Poets Sung", line 47.
These lines were repeatedly drawn on by Sitwell in his later works.
