Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) 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 thirteen 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.
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The Land by Vita Sackville-West is a collection of poems that has recently come in to the public domain. The Land is her pastoral epic and in 1927 was awarded the Hawthornden Prize of Imaginative Literature. Written when Sackville-West became homesi... SEE MORE