Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Writings


Poetry
Chatterton (1909)
A Dancing Elf (1912)
Constantinople: Eight Poems (1915)
Poems of West and East (1917)
Orchard and Vineyard (1921)
The Land (1926)
King's Daughter (1929)
Sissinghurst (1931)
Invitation to Cast out Care (1931)
Collected Poems: Volume 1 (1933)
Solitude (1938)
The Garden (1946)


Novels
Heritage (1919)
The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1921)
The Heir (1922)
Challenge (1923)
Grey Waters (1923)
Seducers in Ecuador (1924)
Passenger to Teheran (1926)
The Edwardians (1930)
All Passion Spent (1931)
The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Künstler (1932)
Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour (1932)
Family History (1932)
The Dark Island (1934)
Grand Canyon (1942)
Devil at Westease (1947)
The Easter Party (1953)
No Signposts in the Sea (1961)


Translations
Duineser Elegien: Elegies from the Castle of Duino by Rainer Maria Rilke trns. Despite the rift the two women were devoted to one another and deeply in love and continued to have occasional liaisons for a number of years afterwards but never rekindled the affair. George Keppel and his wife Alice Keppel a mistress of King Edward VII.

She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf and Sissinghurst Castle Garden which Vita Sackville-West and her husband Sir Harold Nicolson created at their estate. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933.