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	Stephen Spender's facile politics. - By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine
		In 1980, Spender battled a lost wallet, an octogenarian driver, and 287 miles of dismal weather to taxi from a lecture in Oneonta, N.Y., to a dinner date with Jacqueline Onassis in Manhattan.
		Spender, " Randall Jarrell once wrote, "he looked so sincere that her heart failed her, and she said: 'ask anything, and I will give it to you,' and he said: 'Make me sincere.'" Sincerity is a nice enough virtue in acquaintances, but it keeps a literary voice from carrying.
		For his part, Spender was indefatigable, lecturing at one point on how the modern writer "is a kind of superegotist, a hero, and a martyr, carrying the whole burden of civilization in his work." For their part, modern writers were happy to take Spender's handouts, then disparage to others his missionary naiveté.
	www.slate.com /id/2113164 (1355 words)

	Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism - PowerBookSearch!
		The events and experiences that significantly marked Spender's life are at the center of this biography: vividly recaptured, they range from the decay of British upper-class liberalism and the disappointments of the Spanish Civil War to the rise and fall of Marxism and Nazism.
		Spender (1909-1995) was the longest-lived and certainly the most "clubbable" (to use a quaint English phrase) of the modernist English poets who made their names in the early 1930s by rebelling against the genteel Georgian school.
		Spender was a considerable poet, though he lacked the range and brilliance of Auden; and, as this study makes clear, he was a consummate literary politician.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0641521820.html (1235 words)

	Library: Watkinson Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Spender wrote to Mary Elliott at the time of his estrangement from his wife, Inez Pearn, in an effort to communicate with Inez.
		Connolly, Cyril and Spender, Stephen to "Madam" [Elliott, Mary].
		Spender, Stephen Poems: "At the Window", "To J.H.S." (2 pp.), "To Margaret", "Ten Minutes", and Untitled: "From a tree choked by ivy,".
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/library/watkinson/spender.htm (403 words)

	Spender, Sir Stephen - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Spender, Sir Stephen 1909-95, English poet and critic, b.
		Stephen Spender, Poet And Writer, Dies at 86
		Society's dead poet Stephen Spender, as a major new biography shows, will be best remembered for his public and social life rather than for any of his published poems
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-spender.html (404 words)

	"Spender's Lives," by Ian Hamilton
		In 1960, Spender was renowned as a figure from the past--a poet of the nineteen-thirties--and his work was deeply out of fashion.
		After the war, Spender joined UNESCO as Counsellor to the Section of Letters, and this marked an new phase of his celebrity: a twenty-year-long stint as a kind of globe-trotting cultural emissary.
		As Spender saw it, there was nothing at all warlike in the politics he’d settled for--a politics that transcended immediate East-West disputes, that dealt not in power plays but in moral absolutes.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/spender-in-1960.html (584 words)

	Salon Books \| "Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism" by David Leeming
		Spender was famous for his intimacy with the literary giants of his age.
		From his days at Oxford in the late '20s, where he was a young man of immense charm and beauty, until his death in 1996, Spender made the pursuit of "the great" the focus of his life.
		Spender admitted in his most famous verse, "I think continually of those who were truly great." It must have been poignant for him to realize that although he was capable of greatness, he preferred being a contented gentleman.
	www.salon.com /books/review/1999/11/09/leeming (841 words)

	Sir Stephen Spender
		Stephen Spender was a minor poet, but a major cultural influence during much of the century.
		As David Leeming's fascinating biography demonstrates, Stephen Spender's life reflected the complexity and flux of the century in which he lived: his sexual ambivalence, his famous friends, the free-love days in Germany between the wars, the CIA-Encounter scandal.
		Stephen Spender, English poet and critic, was a member of the noted group of writers that included W. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNiece among others.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/s/spender_sir_stephen.htm (468 words)

	Stephen Sondheim
		Stephen Sondheim was only in his mid-20s when he wrote the music and lyrics in 1954 for Saturday Night, based on a play by Julius and Philip Epstein called Front Porch in Flatbush, a romantic comedy set in the Brooklyn of 1929.
		Stephen Sondheim himself was interviewed for the book, as were many of his closest friends, and the author makes perceptive use of this material.
		Stephen Sondheim is the father of the modern American musical.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/s/sondheim_stephen.htm (805 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Stephen Spender
		Sir Stephen Harold Spender was born in 1909 in London.
		Spender's books of poetry include Twenty Poems (1930), Vienna (1934), The Still Centre (1939), Poems of Dedication (1946), and The Generous Days (1971).
		Spender was professor of English at University College, London, from 1970 to 1977, and gave frequent lecture tours in the United States.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/656 (191 words)

	A talent for friendship \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		John Sutherland reveals Stephen Spender's true talents in his biography of a poet who was undervalued, not least by himself.
		John Sutherland wasn't a close friend of Spender but he knew him as a teaching colleague in the 1970s and believes Spender was undervalued, not least by himself.
		Spender was to survive for another half-century, and this biography doesn't skimp the story.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1211172,00.html (1539 words)

	The Stephen Spender Of His Generation - October 18, 2006 - The New York Sun
		Auden and Spender, of course, were two of the young poets who helped to revolutionize English literature in the 1930s.
		Spender's poem "The Pylons," with its ominous image of power lines "like whips of anger," gave them their other collective name, the Pylon school.
		Spender, who never stopped writing poetry, nonetheless ceased to matter as a poet, and took on the more amiable and transient eminence of the man of letters.
	www.nysun.com /article/41727 (619 words)

	Sir Stephen Harold Spender(1909-1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His convictions found further expression in Vienna (1934), a long poem in praise of the 1934 uprising of Viennese socialists, and in Trial of a Judge (1938), an anti-Fascist drama in verse.
		Spender taught at various U.S. institutions, accepting the Elliston Chair of Poetry at Cincinnati University in 1953.
		Spender's lyric verse treats technological aspects of the modern world.
	www.copernico.bo.it /iperold/guernica/html/Spender.html (217 words)

	Stephen Spender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE, (February 28, 1909 – July 16, 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.
		He was initially graded 'C' upon examination due to his earlier Colitis, poor eyesight, varicose veins and the long term effects of a tapeworm on 1934.
		Spender's second wife, Natasha Litvin/Lady Spender, whom he married in 1941, was also part Jewish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Spender (1099 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Spender, Sir Stephen
		Announcing his decision to become a Communist, Spender wrote that "the most important political aim of our time should be the United Front," aligning the communist movements in the Soviet Union, Spain, and France.
		Spender divorced in 1939, and two years later married Natasha Litvin, a concert pianist; two children, Matthew and Lizzie, were born in 1945 and 1951.
		That Spender writes as openly as he does about his relationship with his "German friend" Hellmut, or about his "agonized" concern for Tony's well-being during the Spanish Civil War, whether that concern was motivated by a sense of guilt or responsibility, demonstrates courage that few writers of Spender's generation and reputation can claim.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/spender_s,2.html (542 words)

	Stephen Spender
		Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, wa
		Spender took a keen interest in politics and declared himself to be a socialist and
		In 1941 Spender married the pianist Natasha Litvin.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPspender.htm (205 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Spender,
		With Stephen Spender he founded Horizon (1939-49), a small literary magazine that reflected Connolly's own iconoclastic and mordant attitudes toward contemporary society.
		Obituary: Humphrey Spender; Photojournalist, painter and textile designer.(Obituaries)
		Books: Good intentions of a liberal mind; DJ Taylor Stephen Spender: the authorized biography By John Sutherland VIKING pounds 20 (624pp) pounds 18 (free p&p per order) from 0870 079 8897.(Features)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Spender, (715 words)

	Stephen Spender
		Sir Stephen Harold Spender, British poet, novelist, playwright and critic, was born in London and educated at the University of Oxford, where he first became associated with such other outspoken British literary figures as W. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, C. Day Lewis, and Louis MacNeice.
		Though he was English, Spender was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		Stephen Spender's life reflected the complexity and flux of the century in which he lived: his sexual ambivalence, his famous friends, the free-love days in Germany between the wars, the CIA-Encounter scandal.
	iskrapentcheva.freeservers.com /spender.html (678 words)

	BJ37 Stephen Spender, Review of The Autobiography of William Plomer
		Spender believes Plomer’s ‘guardedness’ in both life and work was ‘affirmed’ in Japan, and that his ‘Japanese style of living’ and relationship with Fukuzawa Morito (see 10c) offer evidence that ‘differences of race or class so far from filling [Plomer] with a sense of his own superiority, or of alienation, stimulated his vital imaginative sympathy’.
		Spender’s relation with Plomer may be traced to 1930 and Plomer’s lecture on modern Japanese literature before the university English club at Oxford, given at the invitation of Spender, then the twenty-year-old secretary of the club (40, p.
		Spender himself travelled to Japan in the fifties, but the only published result is a brief essay, ‘Notes on My Ignorance of Japan’ (Japan Quarterly 5 [1958]: 37-42]).
	themargins.net /bib/B/BJ/bj37.html (148 words)

	Stephen Spender by John Sutherland: Reviews
		From the pretty boys of Berlin to the Guy Burgess spy scandal, Spender not only saw it all but actually lived it all.
		The second half is a more prosaic presentation, sometimes day-by-day, often week-by-week, of the events until his death in 1995, almost at times an expansion of Spender's enormously full social diary.
		Sutherland’s authorized biography takes Spender’s literary achievement as a given, but his close readings of the poems don’t quite persuade one that Spender was a writer of the first rank.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/sutherlandjohn/stephenspender (482 words)

	[minstrels] Seascape -- Stephen Spender
		One of my favourite poems about the sea - I'm fascinated by the way Spender manages to create a poem that, rather like the sea, is full of movement, but is fundamentally unmoving.
		The other thing I love about this poem is the rhyme (I can't honestly remember having read any other Spender where the rhyme pattern is this complex) with the constant repetition of rhymes creating a resonance that however avoids becoming a regular beat - thus creating a sound that is musical yet dissonant.
		From: "Karve, Amol" AT, Spender has also written a book on the Process of Creativity from which Khandwalla (of IIM-A fame) has liberally quoted, in his book "The Fourth Eye" - an attempt at humor I think, which was, sadly, part of coursework at my B-school.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/991.html (413 words)

	Stephen Spender Bibliography at Bookseller World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Stephen Harold Spender was born on 28 February 1909, his father was a biographer and his background very Liberal.
		His education was was lacklustre despite going to Oxford, critically though he met some of the greatest poets and authors of the era whilst there including WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood.
		If you are looking to buy or sell books then our booksellers section may be of some assistance.
	www.booksellerworld.com /stephen-spender.htm (116 words)

	Spender, Sir, Stephen Harold
		Spender might be described as a poet who was simply too busy doing other interesting things - writing plays, autobiography, journals, novels, translations and criticism, editing magazines, working for Unesco, teaching, lecturing, and making friends with the famous - to have actually got round to writing any great poetry.
		In his typically adulatory poem "V.W. (1941)", Spender recalled: "That woman who, entering a room, / Stood, staring round at all, with rays / From her wild eyes, till people there / And books, pictures, furniture - / Became transformed within her gaze." It's possible she was just looking for a means of escape.
		Spender's poetry is best read as a footnote and adjunct to these other achievements; but this is hardly to condemn.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /101002.html (1524 words)

	Stephen Spender (Bold Type Magazine)
		Bold Type's Poetry Editor Ernest Hilbert writes on Spender: "While certain (principally homosexual) disclosures came as quite a shock at the time of the book's publication in 1951, the case of World Within World is hardly one of full disclosure.
		The subtlety with which he recounts particular episodes is of a kind almost entirely unknown to contemporary writers, whose apparent reluctance to withhold any information, however embarrassing or unentertaining, has gone some way in dulling their readers' capacity to discern nuances altogether."
		Read an excerpt from World Within World, a poem and an essay on its republication.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0301/spender (97 words)

	Stephen Spender « pō’ĭ-trē
		Stephen Spender is, IMHO, one of the most underrated poets of the last century.
		Which is not to say that I think he's an incredibly great poet or anything - just that he deserves to be far more widely read than he is today.
		That Spender manages to say something so hackneyed and still make it beautiful, is a serious compliment to his skill as a poet.
	audiopoetry.wordpress.com /tag/poet/stephen-spender (338 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Stephen Spender (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Sir Stephen Spender (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Stephen Spender, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		His early poetry : like that of W. Auden, C. Day Lewis, and Louis MacNeice, with whom he became associated at Oxford : was inspired by social protest.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Spender.html (376 words)

	Stephen Spender - MSN Encarta
		Spender, Sir Stephen Harold (1909-1995), English poet, literary critic, and editor.
		Sir Stephen Harold Spender was born in London and educated at the...
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