Who is Victoria Mary Sackville-west
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her lifetime. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf.
She had a longstanding column in The Observer (1946–1961) and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst created with her husband, S...
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Victoria Mary Sackville-west Poems
- Evening
When little lights in little ports come out,
Quivering down through water with the stars,
And all the fishing fleet of slender spars
Range at their moorings, veer with tide about; ... - To Knole
October 1, 1913
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I left thee in the crowds and in the light, ... - Constantinople - Retour En Songe
After a dream-dim voyage
We came with sails all set
Towards the city of the sea,
And it was wonderful to me ... - Song: Let Us Go Back
Let us go back together to the hills.
Weary am I of palaces and courts,
Weary of words disloyal to my thoughts,,
Come, my beloved, let us to the hills. ... - Constantinople - Dhji-han-ghir. For H.n
For years it had been neglected,
This wilderness garden of ours,
And its ruin had shone reflected
In its pools through abandoned hours. ...
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Susannah_fulltn: born to an english family of peers on 9 march 1892, victoria (vita) mary sackville-west grew up at knole, an ancestral home that can be traced back to the elizabethan writer thomas sackville. read moreRead All Comments
