Sir Stephen Harold Spender (1909-2005) earlier poetry has a left-wing political content, as in Twenty Poems in 1930, Vienna in 1934, The Still Centre in 1939, and Poems of Dedication in 1946.

Short Biography:

Other works include the verse drama Trial of a Judge in 1938, the autobiography World within World in 1951, and translations. Ybs Journals 1939-1943 were published in 1985.

Educated at University College, Oxford, he founded with Cyril Connolly the magazine Horizon (of which he was co-editor 1939-1941) and 1953-1967 was co-editor of Encounter. He became professor of English at University College, London in 1970.

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Stephen Spender was a English poet and critic.

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	1909 births
	1995 deaths
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	T. S. Eliot
	Honorary Fellows of University College, Oxford

 

Stephen Spender Movies
Blade: Trinity Traffic: The Miniseries
Stephen Spender Filmography

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Category: Poets  - ( Poets Archive)

Date Added: 26 June '12

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