Dingverell Sitwell

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Dingverell Sitwell (1927)

Dingverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet , CH (born November 15, 1897 in Scarborough , North Yorkshire , † October 1, 1988 in Towcester , North Yorkshire) was a British writer , art and literary critic , who was particularly famous for his art, architecture - and travel books became known.

Life

Dingverell Sitwell (left) with his older brother Osbert Sitwell (1925)

Dingverell Sitwell was the son of the non-fiction author and member of the House of Commons George Sitwell and his wife Lady Ida Sitwell, as well as a younger brother of the poet Edith Sitwell and the writer and art patron Osbert Sitwell . He attended the prestigious Eton College and served in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War , where he was last promoted to lieutenant . After the war he continued his studies at Balliol College at the University of Oxford and published his first volume of poetry in 1918 with The People's Palace . From 1923 he lived mostly in Weston Hall , the Sitwell family mansion in Towcester .

His poetry collections were mainly in traditional poetic meters written and revealed in her mannered his great interest in art and music style. His art and literary critical books are more original, of which the first Southern Baroque Art: a Study of Painting, Architecture and Music in Italy and Spain of the 17th & 18th Centuries , published in 1924, was the forerunner of his academic research. His poetic prose was seen in particular in the “autobiographical fantasy” All Summer in a Day (1926) and in the darkly mediative Splendors and Miseries (1943). In 1943 he was magistrate (Justice of the Peace) for North Yorkshire . His biographical works dealt with personalities such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Liszt .

After his older brother Osbert Sitwell died on May 4, 1969, Dingverell Sitwell inherited from this the 1808 first bestowed title as 6th Baronet Sitwell, of Renishaw, in the County of Derby . His 1973 book For Want of the Golden City is a series of essays on life and art that contained a great deal of autobiographical material. In 1984 he was awarded the Order of the Companions of Honor (CH).

Publications

  • The People's Palace (1918, poems)
  • The Hundred and One Harlequins (1922, poems)
  • The Thirteenth Caesar (1924, poems)
  • Southern Baroque Art: a Study of Painting, Architecture and Music in Italy and Spain of the 17th & 18th Centuries (1924)
  • German Baroque Art (1927)
  • The Cyder Feast (1927, poems)
  • All At Sea: A Social Tragedy in Three Acts for First-Class Passengers Only (1927, co-author Osbert Sitwell)
  • The Gothick North: a Study of Mediaeval Life, Art, and Thought (1929)
  • Doctor Donne and Gargantua (1930, poems)
  • Spanish Baroque Art, with Buildings in Portugal, Mexico, and Other Colonies (1931)
  • Mozart (1932)
  • Canons of Giant Art: Twenty Torsos in Heroic Landscapes (1933)
  • Conversation Pieces: a Survey of English Domestic Portraits and their Painters (1936)
  • Dance of the Quick and the Dead (1936)
  • Narrative Pictures: a Survey of English Genre and its Painters (1938)
  • German Baroque Sculpture (1938)
  • Roumanian Journey (1938)
  • The Romantic Ballet (1938, co-author Cyril W. Beaumont )
  • Old Fashioned Flowers (1939)
  • Poltergeists: An Introduction and Examination Followed By Chosen Instances (1940)
  • The Homing of the Winds: and other passages in prose (1942)
  • Primitive Scenes and Festivals (1942)
  • The Hunters and the Hunted (1948)
  • The Netherlands; A Study of Some Aspects of Art, Costume and Social Life (1948)
  • Selected Poems (1948)
  • Tropical Birds (1948)
  • Spain (1950)
  • Cupid and the Jacaranda (1952)
  • Fine Bird Books (1953, co-authors Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher )
  • Liszt (1955)
  • Denmark (1956)
  • Arabesque & Honeycomb (1957)
  • Journey to the Ends of Time, etc (1959)
  • British Architects & Craftsmen: survey taste, design, styles 1600–1830 (1960)
  • Golden Wall and Mirador: Travels and Observations in Peru (1961)
  • Great Houses of Europe (1964)
  • Monks, Nuns and Monasteries (1965)
  • Southern Baroque Revisited (1967)
  • Gothic Europe (1969)
  • A Background for Domenico Scarlatti, 1685–1757: Written for His Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary (1970)
  • Tropicalia (1971, poems)
  • Agamemnon's Tomb (1972, poems)
  • For Want of the Golden City (1973)
  • Battles of the Centaurs (1973)
  • Les Troyens (1973)
  • Look at Sowerby's English Mushrooms and Fungi (1974)
  • A Notebook on My New Poems (1974)
  • All Summer in a Day: An Autobiographical Fantasia (1926, reprinted 1976)
  • Placebo (1977)
  • An Indian Summer: 100 recent poems (1982, poems)
  • Hortus Sitwellianus (1984, co-authors Meriel Edmunds and George Reresby Sitwell )

Background literature

  • Michael Raeburn: Dingverell Sitwell's England (1986)

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ The volume of poetry The Thirteenth Caesar , published in 1924, contained the poem The Rio Grande , which formed the basis for the cantata The Rio Grande composed by Constant Lambert .
predecessor Office successor
Osbert Sitwell Baronet (of Renishaw)
1969-1988 		Reresby Sitwell
personal data
SURNAME Sitwell, Ding Verell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sitwell, Dingverell Reresby, 6th Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Scarborough , North Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1988
Place of death Towcester , North Yorkshire