Music and Ceremonies by Edith Sitwell, 44 pages
Music and Ceremonies was one of Dame Sitwell's last volumes of poetry published before her death in 1964 at age 77. Unsurprisingly, the poems dwell on matters of aging and memory and death, but also spring and resurrection, and hope for a final harmony.
Sitwell's poems are interesting in part because, while they are formally excellent, they seem somehow artificial and uninspired, which may be why she is better known as a judge of poetry than as a poet in her own right.
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