The Spectator, May 8th, 2004
A shrewd goose STEPHEN SPENDER: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY by John Sutherland Viking, £25, pp. 627, ISBN 0670883034 In the second paragraph of this biography, John Sutherland claims 'literary greatness' for his subject. This may at once cause the reader to pause. Spender once wrote, 'I think continually of those who were truly great'; but was he one of those truly great himself? Geoffrey Grigson, who always took pleasure in demolishing fellow writers even when they were friends, described him as 'the Rupert Brooke of the Depression'. But since, like Spender himself, Rupert Brooke has been crue...
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