Stephen Spender

Standard Name: Spender, Stephen

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Friends, Associates W. H. Auden
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...
Friends, Associates Penelope Mortimer
When PM met Stephen Spender , he was groaning about someone raving about some trash which she immediately identified as [m]y book.
Mortimer, Penelope. About Time Too: 1940-1978. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
198
Leisure and Society Sylvia Beach
Ernest Hemingway and Stephen Spender gave the last readings held at SB 's Les Amis de Shakespeare and Company .
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton.
370
Leisure and Society Sylvia Beach
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...
Leisure and Society Rosamond Lehmann
Stephen Spender thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation.
Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus.
51
Among the several artists who portrayed her (Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant in paint, Cecil Beaton in photographs), her husband...
Literary responses E. J. Scovell
Stephen Spender and Geoffrey Grigson both praised this volume. Grigson called EJS somewhat inscrutably the purest woman poet of our time—meaning, apparently, that her technique was unobtrusive or transparent.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge.
123
The year after its...
Literary responses Frances Cornford
In the translator's note Spender praised Cornford's abilities, calling her one of the best translators living.
Eluard, Paul, and Marc Chagall. The Dour Desire to Endure. Translators Spender, Stephen and Frances Cornford, The Trianon Press.
59
Occupation Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Occupation Dorothy Wellesley
At Penns during the Second World WarDW wrote of her fear—An explosion. I thought of my son. (Oh, don't think!) I thought of Hilda (she is safe)—but also of solitude, of her...
Occupation Rebecca West
RW was one of the judges (along with Stephen Spender , Frank Kermode , David Farrer , and W. L. Webb ) for the award of the first-ever Booker Prize.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(24 April 1969): 438
“Tears, tiffs and triumphs”. Guardian Unlimited.
politics Sylvia Townsend Warner
Stephen Spender includes in his autobiography a passage that biographer Wendy Mulford terms a vitriolic personal attack
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora.
99
on Warner and Ackland, denigrating their work in Spain. Mulford characterises this as heterosexism and homophobia, representative...
politics Rosamond Lehmann
RL knew Guy Burgess in the late 1930s through Goronwy Rees, and she knew early on that he was a Comintern agent. When the news came in June 1951 that he had gone to Russia,...
politics Valentine Ackland
Stephen Spender 's later autobiography incorporates a vitriolic personal attack
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora.
99
on both women and their work in Spain. Such unthinking heterosexism and homophobia is (says biographer Wendy Mulford ) an index of attitudes prevailing...
politics Virginia Woolf
Through the 1930s, Woolf struggled to define herself and her work against the rise of Fascism in Europe, to chart the relationship between artistic and political tasks. She and her Bloomsbury friends began to be...
Publishing Storm Jameson
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...

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