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Biography

Name: Stephen Harold Spender
Birth Date: February 28, 1909
Death Date: July 17, 1995
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Stephen Harold Spender
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Sir Stephen Harold Spender (1909-1995), poet, critic, translator, travel writer, and English man of letters, first came to prominence as a poet of social protest in the 1930s. Stephen Spender was born February 28, 1909, the son of well-to-do,...
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Biography of Stephen Harold Spender
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Stephen Spender is one of a group of poets— the Auden or Oxford Generation—which also includes Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis. They began having their poetry published in the early 1930s, a decade whose ever-worsening crises—...
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Biography of Stephen (Harold) Spender
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Stephen Spender is one of a group of poets--the Auden or Oxford Generation--which also includes Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis. They began having their poetry published in the early 1930s, a decade whose ever-worsening crises--depression and massive...


Quotations
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Stephen Spender Quotes
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Stephen Spender ( February 28 , 1909 - July 16 , 1995 ) was an English poet and essayist who focused on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Poems (1933) 1.2 The Still Centre (1939) 1.3 Selected Poems...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Stephen Spender Information
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Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE, (February 28, 1909, London – July 16, 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his...


News and Journals
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Today in history - April 6
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Today is Good Friday, April 6, the 96th day of 2007. There are 269 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 6, 1909, explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson became the first men to reach the North Pole. (The claim, disputed...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Samuel Hynes
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'From 1931 onwards,' Stephen Spender wrote, 'in common with many other people, I felt hounded by external events.' The date is not an arbitrary one: 1931 was the watershed between the post-war years and the pre-war years, the point at which the mood of the 'thirties first became generally apparent. (p. 65) [By] 1931 many people in England certainly had begun to see the crisis in which they lived as more than a temporary economic reverse—to see it rather as the colla...
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Stephen Spender
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[In the following interview, which was conducted on February 14, 1978 and later edited for inclusion in Partisan Review, Spender discusses his relationship with W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and other literary figures, and remarks on his career as a poet, critic, and teacher.]
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Stephen Spender
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[Timms is an English educator and critic. In the following review, he discusses Spender's novel The Temple, and suggests that there exists a "dialectic between cultural decorum and artistic innovation."]
 
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Essay Grade: 86%
Stephen Spender's Use of Language, Form and Structure in "The Landscape Near an Aerodrome"
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A critical analysis of Stephen Spender's poem "The Landscape Near an Aerodrome," in which Spender presents his judgment of urban sprawl and its impact on the surrounding rural landscape in a negative, unattractive light. The analysis comments on Spender's language, form, structure and ideas in the poem.
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"Stephen Spender- Experiences and Influences"
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Quite often, it is said that most boys look at their fathers as their role models. In most boys' eyes, their father is a hero. They try to shape themselves just like their fathers at a very tender age. Sometimes, when they grow older, they are like the reflection of their fathers. Not only do they have the same looks but they also have the same morals and values as their fathers once did


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