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Iris Tree

Born

January 27, 1897

Died

April 13, 1968

Genre

Poetry

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Iris Tree was an English poet, actress, and art model, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit, and an adventurer.

Iris Tree's parents were actors Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Helen Maud, Lady Tree. Her sisters were actresses Felicity and Viola Tree. An aunt was author Constance Beerbohm, and her uncles were explorer and author Julius Beerbohm and caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm.

Iris was sought after as an art model while a young woman, being painted by Augustus John, simultaneously by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Roger Fry, and sculpted by Jacob Epstein, showing her bobbed hair (she was said to have cut off the rest and left it on a train) that, along with other behavior, caused much scandal. The Epstein sculpture as of 2000 ...more

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Average rating: 3.55 · 11 ratings · 2 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Poems 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1920 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wheels - The First Cycle by Edith Sitwell (Editor and Contributor), Nancy Cunard (Contributor), Osbert Sitwell (Contributor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1916 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Traveller and other Poems 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1927 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wheels - The Fourth Cycle by Edith Sitwell (Editor and Contributor), Osbert Sitwell (Contributor), Aldous Huxley (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1919 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wheels - The Second Cycle by Edith Sitwell (Editor and Contributor), Osbert Sitwell (Contributor), Aldous Huxley (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1917 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wheels: An Anthology of Verse; Volume 3 by Edith Sitwell (Editor and Contributor), Osbert Sitwell (Contributor), Aldous Huxley (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1918 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marsh Picnic by Iris Tree, John Betjeman (Introduction) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1966 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You preach to me of laws, you tie my limbs
With rights and wrongs and arguments of good,
You choke my songs and fill my mouth with hymns,
You stop my heart and turn it into wood.”
― Iris Tree

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“….Nancy now gave herself to the wider problems surrounding friends and lovers, igniting her torches from theirs, yet following her own. One much disputed loyalty to an American Negro fired her to battle for recognition for his people, compiling and publishing her "Negro Anthology." Another friendship drew her to Spain during the Civil War, in which she participated actively on the side of freedom and composed a series of Spanish poems. Because of these and further deviations from the United status quo, she was refused permission to re-enter America, where she had hoped to join her closest companion, whose absence in Europe left her solitary at heart.

On Nancy Cunard”
― Iris Tree

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“We make a gaudy havoc of our life
And live a thousand ages in an hour.”
― Iris Tree

tags: life, living, poem, poetry

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