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 näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
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Penguin Modern Poets 20: John Heath-Stubbs, F. T. Prince, Stephen Spender (1972) — Tekijä — 30 kappaletta
The writer's dilemma — Johdanto — 6 kappaletta
Chaos and control in poetry; a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress, October 11, 1965 (1966) 6 kappaletta
The new realism : a discussion 3 kappaletta
Encounter (magazine) — Toimittaja — 2 kappaletta
New poems, 1956 2 kappaletta
W.H. Auden: A Memorial Address by Stephen Spender; Delivered at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford on 27 October, 1973 2 kappaletta
Three versions from the German : Christmas 1955 2 kappaletta
Spiritual exercises (to Cecil Day Lewis) 2 kappaletta
The Þmaking of a poem 1 kappale
Encounter No. 142 1 kappale
Great Writings of Goethe 1 kappale
Schiller's Mary Stuart 1 kappale
Spender:Der Tempel 1 kappale
Encounter No.92 1 kappale
Encounter No.141 1 kappale
Encounter No. 97 1 kappale
Encounter No.155 1 kappale
Encounter (Vol. XII, nº 4, April 1959) 1 kappale
Encounter (Vol. XII, nº, May 1959) 1 kappale
Encounter (Vol. XI, nº 6, December 1958) 1 kappale
LAWRENCE GOWING 1 kappale
Encounter (Vol. XV, nº 1, July 1960) 1 kappale
Sirmione peninsula 1 kappale
Ghika: Peintures, Dessins, Sculptures 1 kappale
Encounter January 1961 Vol. XVI No. I 1 kappale
Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" 1 kappale
The Express 1 kappale
Judas Iscariot 1 kappale
Der Tod des Grigori Rasputin 1 kappale
Regum ultima ratio 1 kappale
Twenty poems 1 kappale
Henry Moore O.M. : a memorial address 1 kappale
Inscriptions 1 kappale
The Writings of Goethe 1 kappale
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Goethe's Faust, Parts I & II: An Abridged Version (1951) — Kääntäjä, eräät painokset — 158 kappaletta
The Dylan Companion: A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan (1990) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 96 kappaletta
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Avustaja — 82 kappaletta
Penguin Modern Poets 23: Geoffrey Grigson, Edwin Muir, Adrian Stokes (1973) — Toimittaja — 24 kappaletta
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Avustaja — 21 kappaletta
Penguin Modern European Poets : Abba Kovner and Nelly Sachs : selected poems (1971) — Johdanto — 19 kappaletta
Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the First Fifty Numbers of ‘Now & Then’,… (1935) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
Direction Vol.1 No.3 (April-June 1935) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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- Virallinen nimi
- Spender, Stephen Harold
- Syntymäaika
- 1909-02-28
- Kuolinaika
- 1995-07-16
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Groot-Brittannië
- Syntymäpaikka
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- St John's Wood, London, England, UK
- Asuinpaikat
- London, England, UK
- Koulutus
- University College School, London
University College London
Oxford University (University College) - Ammatit
- professor (poetry)
firefighter
poet
critic
essayist - Suhteet
- Spender, Lily (grandmother)
Spender, Harold (father)
Spender, Matthew (son)
Humphries, Barry (son-in-law)
Lake, Elizabeth (wife) - Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1969)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- 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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