Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
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Stephen Harold Spender was born on February 28, 1909 in London, England. He was educated at University College, Oxford University. With the help of a small independent income, he left Oxford in 1931 to devote himself entirely to poetry writing. His first collection of poetry, Twenty Poems, was mostrar más published in 1930. His other poetry collections include Poems of Dedication, Edge of Being: Poems, and Dolphins. His first prose book, The Destructive Element, was published in 1934. His other works included The Burning Cactus, Forward from Liberalism, European Witness, World Within World, Learning Laughter, The Year of the Young Rebels, Love-Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities, and The Thirties and After. He also taught English literature at several universities including the University College of London University. He was named a Commander of the British Empire in 1962 and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1971. In 1965, he was the first non-American to serve as Consultant in Poetry in English to the Library of Congress. He was knighted in 1983. He died on July 16, 1995 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Stephen Spender
Penguin Modern Poets 20: John Heath-Stubbs, F. T. Prince, Stephen Spender (1972) — Autor — 30 copias
The writer's dilemma — Introducción — 6 copias
Chaos and control in poetry; a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress, October 11, 1965 (1966) 6 copias
The new realism : a discussion 3 copias
Encounter (magazine) — Editor — 2 copias
New poems, 1956 2 copias
The Þmaking of a poem 1 copia
Encounter No. 142 1 copia
Great Writings of Goethe 1 copia
Schiller's Mary Stuart 1 copia
Spender:Der Tempel 1 copia
Encounter No.92 1 copia
Encounter No.141 1 copia
Encounter No. 97 1 copia
Encounter No.155 1 copia
LAWRENCE GOWING 1 copia
Sirmione peninsula 1 copia
Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" 1 copia
The Express 1 copia
Judas Iscariot 1 copia
Der Tod des Grigori Rasputin 1 copia
Regum ultima ratio 1 copia
Twenty poems 1 copia
Inscriptions 1 copia
The Writings of Goethe 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca (New Directions Paperbook) (English and Spanish Edition) (1955) — Traductor; Traductor — 698 copias
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 552 copias
Goethe's Faust, Parts I & II: An Abridged Version (1951) — Traductor, algunas ediciones — 158 copias
The Dylan Companion: A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan (1990) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 96 copias
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Contribuidor — 82 copias
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Contribuidor — 21 copias
Penguin Modern European Poets : Abba Kovner and Nelly Sachs : selected poems (1971) — Introducción — 19 copias
Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the First Fifty Numbers of ‘Now & Then’,… (1935) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Direction Vol.1 No.3 (April-June 1935) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
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- Nombre legal
- Spender, Stephen Harold
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1909-02-28
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1995-07-16
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Groot-Brittannië
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- St John's Wood, London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
- Educación
- University College School, London
University College London
Oxford University (University College) - Ocupaciones
- professor (poetry)
firefighter
poet
critic
essayist - Relaciones
- Spender, Lily (grandmother)
Spender, Harold (father)
Spender, Matthew (son)
Humphries, Barry (son-in-law)
Lake, Elizabeth (wife) - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1969)
- Premios y honores
- Royal Society of Literature Companion of Literature
Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1962)
Knight Bachelor (1983)
Golden PEN Award (1995)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1965-1966)
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