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Stephen Spender - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Sir Stephen Harold Spender was born in 1909 in London.
Poet and critic Stephen Spender was born in 1909 in London. He was a member of the generation of British poets who came to prominence in the 1930s, a group—sometimes referred to as the Oxford Poets—that included W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, C. Day Lewis, and Louis MacNeice....
Stephen Spender (1909-1995) is most closely associated with the 1930s: much of his best poetry was written during this decade and other important works such as his autobiography, World Within World (1951), his novel The Temple (1988) and some volumes of criticism returned to the central questions it raised about the use of poetry in an age of ...
Feb 27, 2005 · Feb. 27, 2005. STEPHEN SPENDER A Literary Life. By John Sutherland. Illustrated. 627 pp. Oxford University Press. $40. IN the closing pages of his thorough new biography of Stephen Spender,...
Stephen Spender. BORN: 1909, London. DIED: 1995, London. NATIONALITY: British. GENRE: Poetry, nonfiction, drama, fiction. MAJOR WORKS: Poems (1933) Vienna (1934) The Still Centre (1939) World within World (1951) The Struggle of the Modern (1963) Overview.
Jul 18, 1995 · Sir Stephen Spender, the British poet, critic and novelist, died on Sunday at St. Mary's Hospital in London. He was 86. He had been taken to the hospital after collapsing at his home in north...
Apr 3, 2005 · Despite his versatility as a man of letters, Stephen Spender never lacked for hostile critics, and even his friends could not resist twitting him: Cyril Connolly once gibed that there were two...
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