Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
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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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Séries
Obras por Stephen Spender
Penguin Modern Poets 20: John Heath-Stubbs, F. T. Prince, Stephen Spender (1972) — Autor — 30 exemplares
The writer's dilemma — Introdução — 6 exemplares
Chaos and control in poetry; a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress, October 11, 1965 (1966) 6 exemplares
The new realism : a discussion 3 exemplares
Encounter (magazine) — Editor — 2 exemplares
New poems, 1956 2 exemplares
W.H. Auden: A Memorial Address by Stephen Spender; Delivered at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford on 27 October, 1973 2 exemplares
Three versions from the German : Christmas 1955 2 exemplares
Spiritual exercises (to Cecil Day Lewis) 2 exemplares
Encounter No. 142 1 exemplar
The Þmaking of a poem 1 exemplar
Great Writings of Goethe 1 exemplar
Schiller's Mary Stuart 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
Encounter (Vol. XII, nº 4, April 1959) 1 exemplar
Encounter (Vol. XII, nº, May 1959) 1 exemplar
Encounter (Vol. XI, nº 6, December 1958) 1 exemplar
LAWRENCE GOWING 1 exemplar
Encounter (Vol. XV, nº 1, July 1960) 1 exemplar
Ghika: Peintures, Dessins, Sculptures 1 exemplar
Encounter January 1961 Vol. XVI No. I 1 exemplar
Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" 1 exemplar
The Express 1 exemplar
Judas Iscariot 1 exemplar
Der Tod des Grigori Rasputin 1 exemplar
Regum ultima ratio 1 exemplar
Twenty poems 1 exemplar
Henry Moore O.M. : a memorial address 1 exemplar
Inscriptions 1 exemplar
The Writings of Goethe 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 550 exemplares
Goethe's Faust, Parts I & II: An Abridged Version (1951) — Tradutor, algumas edições — 158 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 edições — 96 exemplares
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
Penguin Modern Poets 23: Geoffrey Grigson, Edwin Muir, Adrian Stokes (1973) — Editor — 23 exemplares
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Penguin Modern European Poets : Abba Kovner and Nelly Sachs : selected poems (1971) — Introdução — 19 exemplares
Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the First Fifty Numbers of ‘Now & Then’,… (1935) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Direction Vol.1 No.3 (April-June 1935) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Spender, Stephen Harold
- Data de nascimento
- 1909-02-28
- Data de falecimento
- 1995-07-16
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Groot-Brittannië
- Local de nascimento
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- St John's Wood, London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- University College School, London
University College London
Oxford University (University College) - Ocupações
- professor (poetry)
firefighter
poet
critic
essayist - Relações
- Spender, Lily (grandmother)
Spender, Harold (father)
Spender, Matthew (son)
Humphries, Barry (son-in-law)
Lake, Elizabeth (wife) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1969)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- 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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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 108
- Also by
- 56
- Membros
- 2,191
- Popularidade
- #11,711
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 19
- ISBN
- 132
- Línguas
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 2