Stephen Spender

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...

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...