Educ[ated]: during the holidays from Eton. - Osbert Sitwell

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Educ[ated]: during the holidays from Eton.

Osbert Sitwell

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Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt. (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English poet, novelist, memoirist and controversialist on behalf of the arts. Osbert Sitwell, his brother Sacheverell and his sister Edith were among the most conspicuous figures in the British artistic world of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Birth Name: Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell

Native Name: Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet • Sir Osbert Sitwell, Bt

Alternative Names: Capt. Sir [Francis] Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell

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The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

The British bourgeoisie
Is not born
And does not die,
But, if it is ill,
It has a frightened look in its eyes.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

Educ[ated]: during the holidays from Eton. - Osbert Sitwell

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