The Economist (US), June 19th, 2004
Not averse to charm STEPHEN SPENDER lived two lives. In one, he was a member of a generation of poets who helped to re-define the shape of English verse. Other members of the group included C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice and W.H. Auden; all Oxford-educated, they turned their backs on the aestheticism of the 1920s and wrote a poetry which clamoured for social justice. Poetry, their verse seemed to proclaim, belongs out in the world. But there was another Spender too. This one was a critic, a prolific literary journalist and writer of memoirs, and a life-long ambassador for poetry. This second S...
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