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I Live Under a Black Sun

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I Live Under a Black Sun is a novelized biography of Jonathan Swift by poet Edith Sitwell. Her debut novel, it is a modernist work, and was published in 1937, straddling her productive period of poetry in the 1920s and the 1940s. Though primarily biographical fiction, it includes thematic treatments on mourning and melancholia, and political allegory.

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I Live Under a Black Sun is a novelized biography of Jonathan Swift by poet Edith Sitwell. Her debut novel, it is a modernist work, and was published in 1937, straddling her productive period of poetry in the 1920s and the 1940s. Though primarily biographical fiction, it includes thematic treatments on mourning and melancholia, and political allegory.

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