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- Stephen Spender (Magill's Survey of World Literature, Revised Edition)
- Stephen Spender (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
See Also
- Explicating Poetry: World Poets (Critical Survey of Poetry: World Poets)
- English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Critical Survey of Poetry: Topical Essays)
- The Temple (Magill Book Reviews)
- Journals, 1939-1983 (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
- I think continually of those who were truly great (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- The Landscape near an Aerodrome (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
- The Poetry of Spender (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
Biography
Stephen Harold Spender, one of the best lyrical poets and most ardent political writers of the 1930’s, later became an important literary critic, essayist, and journalist. He was born in London on February 28, 1909, the second of four children. Because both of his parents, Edward Harold Spender and Violet Hilda Schuster Spender, died when he was a teenager, his maternal grandmother, Hilda Schuster, played a significant role in his upbringing. In his perceptive autobiography, World Within World, Spender characterized his unhappy youth as a...
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