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, 1968.
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A second edition appeared in 1932, and two years later a...
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, 1950.
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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...
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...