{"id":19123,"date":"2010-12-06T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=19123"},"modified":"2010-12-06T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T05:00:14","slug":"osbert-sitwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/12\/06\/osbert-sitwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Osbert Sitwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/12\/sitwells.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19130\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/12\/sitwells.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/12\/sitwells.jpg 640w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/12\/sitwells-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Osbert with his sister Edith<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sir_Osbert_Sitwell,_5th_Baronet\" target=\"_blank\">Osbert Sitwell<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (1892-1969).\u00a0 Sitwell&#8217;s sister, Edith, provided a warm review of <em>Fearful Symmetry<\/em> in the <em>Spectator <\/em>(10 October 1947).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Frye&#8217;s diary entry for January 4, 1949:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lunch with Osbert Sitwell at the University Club&#8211;Lionel Massey gave the party, &amp; Doug LePan &amp; Paul Arthur &amp; a man I didn&#8217;t know were there.\u00a0 Sitwell was a high-coloured solid-looking aristocrat with iron-grey hair, who until he opened his mouth could have been either a cultivated man or a barbarian.\u00a0 Wonderful lunch&#8211;oysters &amp; a fine dry red Portuguese wine.\u00a0 The conversation was commonplaces, though highly cultivated commonplaces.\u00a0 He is deeply impressed by my book&#8211;says he&#8217;s recommended it to a lot of people including the painter John Piper.\u00a0 Edith [Sitwell] is at the St. Regis on East 50th St, New York.\u00a0 He&#8217;s Jung&#8217;s sensation type, not a thinker primarily.\u00a0 (CW 8, 62)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osbert with his sister Edith Today is Osbert Sitwell&#8216;s birthday (1892-1969).\u00a0 Sitwell&#8217;s sister, Edith, provided a warm review of Fearful Symmetry in the Spectator (10 October 1947). 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