Sing High! Sing Low!: A Book Of Essays
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Ex-library book with usual markings
Few writers of the mid-twentieth century commanded the English essay form with as much elegance and erudition as Osbert Sitwell, and Sing High! Sing Low! stands as a vivid testament to that mastery. Published in 1944 amidst the tumult of the Second World War, this collection gathers a series of finely crafted essays that range across art, culture, music, travel, and the idiosyncrasies of human character, presenting a portrait of a civilised world worth preserving. Sitwell writes with a satirist's sharpness and an aesthete's sensitivity, chronicling the textures of European cultural life with wit and warmth. His prose is at once intimate and grand, drawing on a lifetime of immersion in the arts to argue, implicitly, for the enduring importance of beauty and intellect in troubled times. For readers who prize the personal essay as a literary art form, this volume remains a compelling and rewarding encounter with one of Britain's most distinctive literary voices.
Author: Osbert Sitwell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1944, Macmillan & Co. Ltd
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Ex-library book with usual markings
Few writers of the mid-twentieth century commanded the English essay form with as much elegance and erudition as Osbert Sitwell, and Sing High! Sing Low! stands as a vivid testament to that mastery. Published in 1944 amidst the tumult of the Second World War, this collection gathers a series of finely crafted essays that range across art, culture, music, travel, and the idiosyncrasies of human character, presenting a portrait of a civilised world worth preserving. Sitwell writes with a satirist's sharpness and an aesthete's sensitivity, chronicling the textures of European cultural life with wit and warmth. His prose is at once intimate and grand, drawing on a lifetime of immersion in the arts to argue, implicitly, for the enduring importance of beauty and intellect in troubled times. For readers who prize the personal essay as a literary art form, this volume remains a compelling and rewarding encounter with one of Britain's most distinctive literary voices.