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Stephen Spender (1909–1995)

Autor(a) de The Temple

108+ Works 2,191 Membros 19 Críticas 2 Favorited

About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Obras por Stephen Spender

The Temple (1929) 367 exemplares
China Diary (1982) 102 exemplares
Journals 1939-1983 [1939] (1985) 100 exemplares
Selected Poems (1940) 92 exemplares
Eliot (1975) — Autor — 89 exemplares
Collected Poems, 1928-1985 (1985) 84 exemplares
Great German Short Stories (1960) — Editor — 83 exemplares
W.H. Auden : A Tribute (1975) — Editor — 66 exemplares
Letters to Christopher (1980) 53 exemplares
Poems (1933) 44 exemplares
Dolphins (1958) 40 exemplares
Collected Poems, 1928-1953 (1955) 32 exemplares
The year of the young rebels (1969) 30 exemplares
The Struggle of the Modern (1963) 28 exemplares
The Making of a Poem. (1955) 26 exemplares
The Forward Book of Poetry 1993 (1992) 23 exemplares
Forward from liberalism (1937) 23 exemplares
The Generous Days (1971) 22 exemplares
Selected Poems (2009) 21 exemplares
Poems of Dedication (1947) 17 exemplares
A Choice of Shelley's Verse (1971) 16 exemplares
The burning cactus (1936) 15 exemplares
Vienna (1935) 14 exemplares
Collected Poems (1955) 13 exemplares
Trial of a judge (1938) 13 exemplares
Learning laughter (1952) 13 exemplares
European Witness (1946) 12 exemplares
Air Raids (1943) 10 exemplares
The Creative Element (1953) 9 exemplares
The Edge of Being (1949) 9 exemplares
Shelley (1964) 9 exemplares
The writer's dilemma — Introdução — 6 exemplares
Henry Moore : Stonehenge (1974) 6 exemplares
Life and the Poet (1942) 6 exemplares
Botticelli (1945) 5 exemplares
Citizens in war, and after (1945) 5 exemplares
Il diario di Sintra (2012) 5 exemplares
Poems for Spain (1939) — Editor — 5 exemplares
Un regard (1990) 5 exemplares
Poetry Since 1939 (1946) 5 exemplares
The backward son (1940) 3 exemplares
Encounter (magazine) — Editor — 2 exemplares
EUROPE IN PHOTOGRAPHS. (1951) 2 exemplares
New poems, 1956 2 exemplares
Encounter No. 142 1 exemplar
Encounter No.92 1 exemplar
Encounter No.141 1 exemplar
Sirmione peninsula 1 exemplar
Encounter No. 97 1 exemplar
Encounter No.155 1 exemplar
LAWRENCE GOWING 1 exemplar
L'Idiot et la princesse (1997) 1 exemplar
The Express 1 exemplar
Judas Iscariot 1 exemplar
Regum ultima ratio 1 exemplar
Twenty poems 1 exemplar
Recent poems (1978) 1 exemplar
Poems Garcia Lorca (1939) 1 exemplar
Inscriptions 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Under the Volcano (1947) — Introdução, algumas edições4,377 exemplares
Duino Elegies (1923) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,723 exemplares
Collected Poems (1976) — Prefácio, algumas edições1,500 exemplares
Mary Stuart (1800) — Tradutor, algumas edições846 exemplares
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1955) — Tradutor; Tradutor — 697 exemplares
The Man Outside : Play & stories (1956) — Introdução — 554 exemplares
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contribuidor, algumas edições550 exemplares
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contribuidor — 545 exemplares
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contribuidor, algumas edições443 exemplares
The God That Failed (1944) — Contribuidor — 426 exemplares
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contribuidor — 389 exemplares
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contribuidor — 333 exemplares
The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) — Contribuidor, algumas edições284 exemplares
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Contribuidor — 275 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Contribuidor, algumas edições264 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contribuidor — 236 exemplares
The Pleasure of Reading (1992) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Contribuidor — 158 exemplares
Goethe's Faust, Parts I & II: An Abridged Version (1951) — Tradutor, algumas edições158 exemplares
Granta 30: New Europe (1990) — Contribuidor — 145 exemplares
The Novices of Sais (1802) — Prefácio, algumas edições138 exemplares
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
The Dylan Companion: A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan (1990) — Contribuidor, algumas edições96 exemplares
Great Writings of Goethe (1958) — Editor, algumas edições87 exemplares
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Hockney's Alphabet (1991) 59 exemplares
The Life of the Virgin Mary (1913) — Tradutor, algumas edições53 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse (1980) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Junge Männer (1773) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Edition (1905) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
A poet and his camera (1968) — Prefácio, algumas edições34 exemplares
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
The Poems of P.B. Shelley (1971) — Editor — 30 exemplares
The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (1934) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
The Deadly Innocents: Portraits of Children Who Kill (0701) — Prefácio — 26 exemplares
Twentieth Century Interpretations of 1984 (1971) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
De dag dat je brief kwam Amnesty International poëziebundel (1988) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Herbert List, photographs 1930-1970 (1976) — Introdução — 15 exemplares
Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration (1991) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Westminster in War (1947) — Prefácio, algumas edições13 exemplares
The Penguin New Writing No. 27 (1946) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
The Penguin New Writing No. 23 (1942) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The Penguin New Writing No. 18 (1943) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Twenty-Three Modern Stories (1963) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Tredive mesterfortællinger — Autor, algumas edições3 exemplares
Poèmes élisabéthains (1969) — Prefácio — 3 exemplares
The Penguin New Writing No. 21 (1944) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Paris Review 96 1985 Summer (1985) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Direction Vol.1 No.3 (April-June 1935) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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"Un mundo dentro del mundo, la célebre autobiografía de Stephen Spender, contiene vívidos retratos de Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Auden o Cristopher Isherwood, y una fascinante descripción de la Europa de los años veinte y treinta: el frío brillo de la vida universitaria inglesa, el desenfreno erótico y cultural de la Alemania de entreguerras, y un relato distanciado y personalísimo de la participación del autor en la guerra civil española."
 
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BibliotecaJosepCosta | 3 outras críticas | Sep 26, 2023 |
This is an enjoyable book, although rather inconsistent. Some of the passages, especially those that are heavy on dialogue, are awkward and with a purpose that is far from clear. Others are bright and evocative. Although none of the characters is simple, nor are they alive or engaging, particularly in the first part of the book.
 
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robfwalter | 3 outras críticas | Jul 31, 2023 |
A lyrical and fascinating memoir, this book was written when the author was still in his forties. Included here is an introduction for this new 1994 edition. I enjoyed the references to both Auden and Isherwood, two of my favorite authors, while Spender's prose style complements his own poetry.
 
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jwhenderson | 3 outras críticas | Dec 26, 2022 |
The Fontana Modern Masters was a series of pocket guides on writers, philosophers, and other thinkers and theorists who shaped the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century, and the series editor was Frank Kermode who was Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. Each volume aimed to be an introduction to the life and writings.

T.S. Eliot left instructions that his biography should not be written. (p. 22). Yet, in The function of criticism he had written that 'the critic should be a master of fact‘ and these facts include biographical information about the writer. Eliot's idea that his relationship to his readership should be through his work, and not through his biography has now become a mainstream idea about the appreciation of literary works. Descpite his caution about his private life, Eliot did let out some biographical information about himself, for example in his correspondence.

The author of this short biography and critical introduction to T.S. Eliot was Stephen Spender. Spender himself was a poet, and wrote a novel, travel and autobiographical works, as well as literary criticism. He was a contemporary of T.S Eliot and a friend, and in turn a contemporary of the friends they had in common, many of whom were also writers, poets and scholars active during the same period. Thus, Spender writes: "On one occasion I was having tea with Leonard and Virginia Woolf when Eliot was also a fellow-guest." (p. 129) Stephen Spender first met T.S. Eliot in 1928.

Despite these close personal relations, Eliot is foremostly a critical introduction to Eliot's works, based of wide reading of primary and secondary sources. One gets the feeling that the author secretly honoured Eliot's wish. Spender's analyses and interpretation of Eliot's works is precise and elegant, and obviously Spender's writing style is superior to any academic scholar, with very, very few exceptions.

Besides having Frank Kermode as the series editor, the acknowledgements also mention the contributions of Eliot's wife, Valerie Eliot, Professor John Bayley and Mrs Bayley (Iris Murdoch).
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edwinbcn | Dec 27, 2021 |

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Membros
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ISBN
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