Sacheverell Sitwell

Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet (November 15, 1897–October 1, 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. He was the younger brother of Edith Sitwell and Osbert Sitwell; later in life he became more reticent about associating himself with the publicity attaching to the Sitwells collectively, travelling and concentrating on writing. He became the 6th baronet, inheriting the title when Osbert died in 1969. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1984. His main residence was Weston Hall, Northamptonshire, the family home.

Works

• The People's Palace (1918) poems
• The Hundred and One Harlequins (1922) poems
• Southern Baroque Art: a Study of Painting, Architecture and Music in Italy and Spain of the 17th & 18th Centuries (1924)
• The Thirteenth Caesar (1924) poems
• German Baroque Art (1927)
• The Cyder Feast (1927) poetry
• All At Sea: A Social Tragedy in Three Acts for First-Class Passengers Only (1927) with Osbert Sitwell
• The Gothick North: a Study of Mediaeval Life, Art, and Thought.(1929)
• Dr. Donne and Gargantua (1930) poems
• Spanish Baroque Art, with Buildings in Portugal, Mexico, and Other Colonies(1931)
• Mozart (1932)
• Canons of Giant Art: Twenty Torsos in Heroic Landscapes (1933)
• Conversation Pieces: a Survey of English Domestic Portraits and their Painters(1936)
• Narrative Pictures: a Survey of English Genre and its Painters (1938)
• German Baroque Sculpture (1938)
• Roumanian Journey (1938)
• The Romantic Ballet (1938) with C. W. Beaumont
• Old Fashioned Flowers (1939)
• Poltergeists: An Introduction and Examination Followed By Chosen Instances (1940)
• The Hunters and the Hunted (1948)
• Selected Poems (1948)
• The Netherlands; A Study of Some Aspects of Art, Costume and Social Life (1948)
• Tropical Birds (1948)
• Spain (1950)
• Cupid and the Jacaranda (1952)
• Fine Bird Books (1953) with Handasyde Buchanan and James Fisher
• Liszt (1955)
• Denmark (1956)
• Arabesque & Honeycomb (1957)
• British Architects & Craftsmen: survey taste, design, styles 1600-1830 (1960)
• Golden Wall and Mirador: Travels and Observations in Peru (1961).
• Great Houses of Europe (1964)
• Monks, Nuns and Monasteries (1965)
• Southern Baroque Revisited (1967)
• Gothic Europe (1969)
• A Background for Domenico Scarlatti, 1685-1757: Written for His Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary (1970)
• Tropicalia (1971) poems
• Agamemnon?s Tomb (1972) poems
• For Want of the Golden City (1973)
• Battles of the Centaurs (1973)
• Les Troyens (1973)
• Look at Sowerby's English Mushrooms and Fungi (1974)
• A Notebook on My New Poems (1974)
• All Summer in a Day : An Autobiographical Fantasia (1976)
• Placebo (1977)
• An Indian Summer: 100 recent poems (1982) poems
• Hortus Sitwellianus (1984) with Meriel Edmunds and George Reresby Sitwell
• Sacheverell Sitwell's England (1986) edited by Michael Raeburn