Stephen Spender

Standard Name: Spender, Stephen

Connections

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Travel	W. H. Auden	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...
Textual Production	Olivia Manning	New Stories also published Pamela Hansford Johnson , Dylan Thomas , and Stephen Spender . OM 's title, which is challenging in a way that was characteristic for this stage of her career, comes from...
Textual Production	Frances Cornford	Stephen Spender and Frances Cornford published their joint translation of Paul Eluard's Le Dur désir de durer. Eluard, Paul, and Marc Chagall. The Dour Desire to Endure. Translators Spender, Stephen and Frances Cornford, The Trianon Press. 96
Publishing	W. H. Auden	An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies. Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press. 4 A second edition appeared in 1932, and two years later a...
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...
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...
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,...
Occupation	Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda	Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West , Stella Benson , Cicely Hamilton , Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson , Virginia Woolf , Naomi Mitchison , E. M. Delafield , Rose Macaulay
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.
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
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

Timeline

By October 1928

Stephen Spender , as an Oxford undergraduate, self-published a booklet of poems entitled Nine Experiments.

February 1936

The awesome trio

Laity, Paul. “The left’s ace of clubs”. Guardian Unlimited.

of political theorist Harold Laski , publisher Victor Gollancz , and writer and Labour MP John Strachey established the Left Book Club (LBC) .

October 1953

The influential literary and cultural magazineEncounter was launched in London; the editors were Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol .

Texts

Eluard, Paul, and Marc Chagall. The Dour Desire to Endure. Translators Spender, Stephen and Frances Cornford, The Trianon Press, 1950.