Stephen Spender Summary

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 ... Read more

Critical Essay by T. C. Worsley It was Spender's Poems, 1933, which first made the general public aware that there was a new poetic generation born, and we can tell this from the fact that the... Read more

[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... Read more

[In the obituary below, the critic surveys Spender's life and career.] Latterly the reputation of Stephen Spender had been very much that of critic, lecturer, scholar and ambassador for cult... Read more

[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 artis... Read more

[Symons is an English novelist, short story writer, poet, critic, and biographer. In the review below, he comments on the poetry collection Dolphins and commends Spender's lifelong dedication t... Read more

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... Read more