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"Being a poet".(Book Review)
John Sutherland Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography. Oxford, 627 pages, $40
Stephen Spender New Collected Poems, edited by Michael Brett. Faber & Faber, 393 pages, 30 [pounds sterling]
There have been two previous biographical studies of Sir Stephen Spender (1909-1995). The first, by Hugh David (1992), was a hatchet job which caused the family great distress. The second, David Leeming's Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism (1999), was more respectable, but it was still too frank about Spender's bisexuality for the comfort of some. This is odd, since Spender was open about the matter himself in his autobiography, World Within World (1951), and his ...
- A dinner-party poet; Stephen Spender.(Stephen Spender, poet and...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 19, 2004 700+ words
...But there was another Spender too. This one was a...poetry. This second Spender was involved in the...published--the two Spenders were somewhat at odds...other. The instincts of Spender the poet were not the...cultural ambassador. Stephen Spender knew from his earliest...
- Stephen Spender: Sir Stephen Harold Spender, British poet, novelist, playwright...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) July 22, 1995 700+ words
IN 1933, when Stephen Spender was 24, he wrote the poem that...even with his one remembered poem, Stephen Spender has done better in a bid for immortality...without trace. But, most important, Stephen Spender stood for an era, as distinctive...
- Sir Stephen Spender Discusses His Works
- Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday November 20, 1994 700+ words
...Host: At the age of 85, Sir Stephen Spender is the last surviving member...and has been republished. Sir STEPHEN SPENDER, Poet: To tell you the truth...publication of his autobiography, Sir Stephen Spender, who received his knighthood...
- Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism.(Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Dick, Bernard F. June 22, 2000 700+ words
David Leeming, Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism. New York...Leeming is the ideal biographer of Stephen Spender, whom he first encountered in 1969...the University of Connecticut and Spender a visiting professor. Even when...
- Stephen SPENDER. (PAR66270)
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Herbert List January 1, 1929 700+ words
...Herbert List Magnum Photos 01-01-1929 Stephen SPENDER. Keywords: people person seated physical...person famous people novelist germany. stephen spender, british poet. 1929. stephen spender. 1929 Magnum Photos
- FRANCE. Bouche du Rhome. British poet Sir Stephen Spender. 1983. (PAR66284)
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Dennis Stock January 1, 1983 700+ words
...Bouche du Rhome. British poet Sir Stephen Spender. 1983. Keywords: tool implement...les baux de provence. poet stephen spender (gb) france. bouche du rhome. british poet sir stephen spender. 1983. france. bouche du rhome...
- Society's dead poet; Stephen Spender, as a major new biography shows, will be...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) April 26, 2004 700+ words
...choosing. Such a one is the late Sir Stephen Spender. If you consult, say, the excellent...get on with their work." That Spender's activities in these realms...tireless is confirmed by a new book, Stephen Spender: The Authorised Biography by...
- 'Now with my hand I cover Africa': a love-poem sent by Stephen Spender to...
- Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies Cummings, Dave June 1, 2002 700+ words
...notably E. M. Forster and Stephen Spender. Many of the 'queer' letters...early 1930 William Plainer met Stephen Spender at the Oxford English Club...s lifetime. On 4 May 1930 Stephen Spender sent William Plomer a letter...
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