Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender 's later autobiography incorporates a vitriolic personal attack on both women and their work in Spain. Such unthinking heterosexism and homophobia is (says biographer Wendy Mulford ) an index of attitudes prevailing...

It was during his undergraduate years that WHA formed close friendships with his near-contemporary and fellow writer Christopher Isherwood and with fellow poet Stephen Spender . For a while these three were seen as a...

From autumn 1928 WHA lived for nearly a year at Berlin in Germany, at first with a comfortably bourgeois family selected by his own, then in a poor district selected by himself. He chose...

An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies. A second edition appeared in 1932, and two years later a...

Ernest Hemingway and Stephen Spender gave the last readings held at SB 's Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company .

Hemingway was scheduled to read alone but was frightfully anxious, so he asked Stephen Spender , whom he had met in Spain, to come along and read too. Hemingway was still nervous on the...

Frequent guests at Bowen's Court (where, says Victoria Glendinning, they ate and drank royally) included William Plomer , Sean O'Faolain , and Cyril Connolly . Virginia Woolf stayed there once; Iris Murdoch also...

Stephen Spender and Frances Cornford published their joint translation of Paul Eluard's Le Dur désir de durer.

In the translator's note Spender praised Cornford's abilities, calling her one of the best translators living.

Frances Cornford met the poet Stephen Spender and his wife Natasha .

Her friends during the 1950s included Stephen and Natasha Spender , Alec Waugh , Margaret Lane , Malcolm Sargent , and Joyce Grenfell . She also met Cyril Connolly , Olivia Manning , Stevie Smith

SJ also wrote for the Times Literary Supplement and Left Review (launched in October 1934 by Amabel Williams-Ellis and others), as well as for Fact (a journal whose editors included Stephen Spender ). Her changing...

She had a remarkably catholic talent for friendship. During her student days she became a friend of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis . Her correspondents at this and later periods of her life included her...

Stephen Spender thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation.Among the several artists who portrayed her (Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant in paint, Cecil Beaton in photographs), her husband...

RL was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson . Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon , W. H. Auden , Christopher Isherwood