for 1948. He died aged 90 in October 1988, and is buried in the churchyard of Weedon Lois in Northamptonshire, next to his wife Georgia, who predeceased him, and near his sister Edith. As his poetry was so severely criticised, particularly by those who disliked the Sitwells in general, and although Canons of Giant Art was a work of considerable impact, he refused to publish any of his poems for many years. In 1967 Derek Parker published a selection of his poems in the summer edition of Poetry Review, including his elegy for his beloved sister Edith. Among his most remarkable and original works are a series of lengthy autobiographical and art-based "fantasias" such as "For Want of the Golden City", "The Hunters and the Hunted" and "Dance of the Quick and the Dead" (1936). Constant Lambert set to music The Rio Grande, one of his poems, which was performed and broadcast in 1928. Sitwell was the author of the book Poltergeists (1940). It reviewed poltergeist cases over the centuries. He concluded that many, though not all, cases could be explained by human trickery (conscious or unconscious) and hysteria. 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; contains The Rio Grande, the basis of Constant Lambert's The Rio Grande) German Baroque Art (1927) The Cyder Feast (1927; poems) 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), containing "Agamemnon's Tomb" Liszt (1934) Conversation Pieces: a Survey of English Domestic Portraits and their Painters (1936) Dance of the Quick and the Dead (1936) Selected Poems (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) Valse des Fleurs (1941; new limited edition (400 copies, 20 of which signed and accompanied by a Henry Moore lithograph) published by The Fairfax