Edith Sitwell is the most radical avant-garde British figure of the 20th century. She is truly a Modernist icon. Along with the outstanding musical qualities of her poetry with its social and religious concerns, her greatness lies in the skillfully sketched world she creates in her poems with its various characters. Since Edith Sitwell was highly cultivated and bred to the ancient traditions of arts,she had naturally created the setting of her world from them and she derived some of her characters. In this special world she created an outstanding variety of characters. Her characters were series of archetype, some of them were imaginative creations of the poet herself, while others were taken from folk and fairy tales. Yet these characters have been enriched and developed by conscious art until they have grown into a new existence.