Delphi Collected Works of Vita Sackville-West

by Vita Sackville-West, Delphi Classics (Editor)

A prominent figure of the Modernist movement, Vita Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, who published more than ten collections of poetry and numerous novels. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative in 1927 for her pastoral epic, ‘The Land’ and in 1933 for her seminal ‘Collected Poems’. She also wrote the extremely popular novels ‘The Edwardians’ and ‘All Passion Spent’, as well as scholarly non-fiction works. Sackville-West was the famous inspiration for the protagonist of ‘ A Biography’, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This comprehensive eBook presents Sackville-West’s collected works, with illustrations, many rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Sackville-West’s life and works
* Concise introduction to Sackville-West’s life and poetry
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Many rare texts digitised for the first time
* Includes four novels
* Features the major short story ‘Seducers in Ecuador’
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres




The Life and Poetry of Vita Sackville-West
Brief Vita Sackville-West
Timgad (1900)
Constantinople (1915)
Poems of West & East (1917)
Orchard and Vineyard (1921)
The Land (1926)

The Poems
List of Poems in Chronological Order
List of Poems in Alphabetical Order

The Novels
Heritage (1919)
The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1920)
Challenge (1920)
Grey Wethers (1923)

The Shorter Fiction
The Heir (1922)
Seducers in Ecuador (1924)

The Non-Fiction
Knole and the Sackvilles (1922)
Passenger to Teheran (1926)

Kindle Edition

Published August 16, 2022

About the author

Novels of British writer Victoria Mary Sackville-West, known as Vita, include The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931).

This prolific English author, poet, and memoirist in the early 20th century lived not so privately.
While married to the diplomat Harold Nicolson, she conducted a series of scandalous amorous liaisons with many women, including the brilliant Virginia Woolf. They had an open marriage. Both Sackville-West and her husband had same-sex relationships. Her exuberant aristocratic life was one of inordinate privilege and way ahead of her time. She frequently traveled to Europe in the company of one or the other of her lovers and often dressed as a man to be able to gain access to places where only the couples could go. Gardening, like writing, was a passion Vita cherished with the certainty of a vocation: she wrote books on the topic and constructed the gardens of the castle of Sissinghurst, one of England's most beautiful gardens at her home.

She published her first book Poems of East and West in 1917. She followed this with a novel, Heritage, in 1919. A second novel, The Heir (1922), dealt with her feelings about her family. Her next book, Knole and the Sackvilles (1922), covered her family history. The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931) are perhaps her best known novels today. In the latter, the elderly Lady Slane courageously embraces a long suppressed sense of freedom and whimsy after a lifetime of convention. In 1948 she was appointed a Companion of Honour for her services to literature. She continued to develop her garden at Sissinghurst Castle and for many years wrote a weekly gardening column for The Observer. In 1955 she was awarded the gold Veitch medal of the Royal Horticultural Society. In her last decade she published a further biography, Daughter of France (1959) and a final novel, No Signposts in the Sea (1961).

She died of cancer on June 2, 1962.