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Dame Edith Sitwell

The English poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell was a member of one of the most celebrated literary families of the twentieth century, whose members also included Sir Osbert Sitwell

Higher Sensualism, The

by Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

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Queen Circe, the farmer's wife at the Fair,

Met three sailor-men stumping there,

Who came from the parrot-plumed sea, Yo-Ho!

And each his own trumpet began to blow.

‘We come,’ said they, ‘from the Indian seas,

All bright as a parrot's feathers, and these

Break on gold-sands of the perfumed isles,

Where the fruit is soft as a siren's smiles,

And the sun is as black as a Nubian.

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On this day in 1911 Guillaume Apollinaire was wrongfully imprisoned for stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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To what does the name of the art movement "Dada" refer?

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Appropriately, the source and meaning of the name for this absurd and anti-art movement, "Dada," are now speculative. It has been said to reference the Romanian "yeah, right," the French "hobby-horse," nonsense syllables, baby talk for father, among others. While it is unclear who came up with the word, Tristan Tzara was certainly one of its most tireless promoters.

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