Biography stephen spender poems pdf
Stephen spender.
Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender (1909-1995) is most closely associated with the 1930s: much of his best poetry was written during this decade and other important works such as his autobiography, World Within World (1951), his novel The Temple (1988) and some volumes of criticism returned to the central questions it raised about the use of poetry in an age of propaganda and war.
Spender was born in London to a journalist father and went to the same public school in Norfolk as W. H. Auden who was two years his senior.
Biography stephen spender poems pdf
The two met again at Oxford, part of a left-wing group of poets that also included Louis MacNeice and Cecil Day-Lewis, an association that gave rise to the collective nickname ‘McSpaunday’, though they were never a movement in any formal sense.
Despite not finishing his degree, Spender’s years at Oxford were formative, not least in the lifelong friendship he developed with Auden. In 1929 Spender visited Germany with Christopher Isherwood. In the ea