Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
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Stephen Harold Spender was born on February 28, 1909 in London, England. He was educated at University College, Oxford University. With the help of a small independent income, he left Oxford in 1931 to devote himself entirely to poetry writing. His first collection of poetry, Twenty Poems, was vis mere published in 1930. His other poetry collections include Poems of Dedication, Edge of Being: Poems, and Dolphins. His first prose book, The Destructive Element, was published in 1934. His other works included The Burning Cactus, Forward from Liberalism, European Witness, World Within World, Learning Laughter, The Year of the Young Rebels, Love-Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities, and The Thirties and After. He also taught English literature at several universities including the University College of London University. He was named a Commander of the British Empire in 1962 and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1971. In 1965, he was the first non-American to serve as Consultant in Poetry in English to the Library of Congress. He was knighted in 1983. He died on July 16, 1995 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Penguin Modern Poets 20: John Heath-Stubbs, F. T. Prince, Stephen Spender (1972) — Forfatter — 30 eksemplarer
Chaos and control in poetry; a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress, October 11, 1965 (1966) 6 eksemplarer
The writer's dilemma — Introduktion — 6 eksemplarer
The new realism : a discussion 3 eksemplarer
W.H. Auden: A Memorial Address by Stephen Spender; Delivered at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford on 27 October, 1973 2 eksemplarer
Three versions from the German : Christmas 1955 2 eksemplarer
The Faber Gallery : Botticelli 2 eksemplarer
Great Writings of Goethe 2 eksemplarer
New poems, 1956 2 eksemplarer
Encounter (magazine) — Redaktør — 2 eksemplarer
Spiritual exercises (to Cecil Day Lewis) 2 eksemplarer
Spender:Der Tempel 1 eksemplar
Schiller's Mary Stuart 1 eksemplar
Encounter January 1961 Vol. XVI No. I 1 eksemplar
Encounter (Vol. XII, nº 4, April 1959) 1 eksemplar
Encounter (Vol. XV, nº 1, July 1960) 1 eksemplar
Encounter (Vol. XII, nº, May 1959) 1 eksemplar
Encounter (Vol. XI, nº 6, December 1958) 1 eksemplar
The Þmaking of a poem 1 eksemplar
Ghika: Peintures, Dessins, Sculptures 1 eksemplar
Encounter No.92 1 eksemplar
Encounter No. 97 1 eksemplar
Encounter No.155 1 eksemplar
Encounter No.141 1 eksemplar
Encounter No. 142 1 eksemplar
LAWRENCE GOWING 1 eksemplar
Encounter magazine, Vol. 24, No. 3, March 1965 1 eksemplar
Der Tod des Grigori Rasputin 1 eksemplar
Regum ultima ratio 1 eksemplar
Twenty poems 1 eksemplar
Henry Moore O.M. : a memorial address 1 eksemplar
Judas Iscariot 1 eksemplar
The Express 1 eksemplar
Inscriptions 1 eksemplar
Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" 1 eksemplar
Sirmione peninsula 1 eksemplar
The Writings of Goethe 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 552 eksemplarer
Goethe's Faust, Parts I & II: An Abridged Version (1951) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver — 158 eksemplarer
The Dylan Companion: A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan (1990) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 96 eksemplarer
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Bidragyder — 82 eksemplarer
Penguin Modern Poets 23: Geoffrey Grigson, Edwin Muir, Adrian Stokes (1973) — Redaktør — 24 eksemplarer
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
Penguin Modern European Poets : Abba Kovner and Nelly Sachs : selected poems (1971) — Introduktion — 19 eksemplarer
Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (The New Hogarth Library) (1943) — Oversætter — 5 eksemplarer
Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the First Fifty Numbers of ‘Now & Then’,… (1935) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Direction Vol.1 No.3 (April-June 1935) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Juridisk navn
- Spender, Stephen Harold
- Fødselsdato
- 1909-02-28
- Dødsdag
- 1995-07-16
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Groot-Brittannië
- Fødested
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Dødssted
- St John's Wood, London, England, UK
- Bopæl
- London, England, UK
- Uddannelse
- University College School, London
University College London
Oxford University (University College) - Erhverv
- professor (poetry)
firefighter
poet
critic
essayist - Relationer
- Spender, Lily (grandmother)
Spender, Harold (father)
Spender, Matthew (son)
Humphries, Barry (son-in-law)
Lake, Elizabeth (wife) - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1969)
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1962)
Knight Bachelor (1983)
Golden PEN Award (1995)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1965-1966)
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