SOURCE: An interview in Partisan Review, Vol. LV, No. 1, 1988, pp. 45-54.
[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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