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Stephen Harold Spender was born on 28 February 1909, his father
was a biographer and his background very Liberal. His education was was
lacklustre despite going to Oxford, critically though he met some of the
greatest poets and authors of the era whilst there including WH Auden and
Christopher Isherwood. Along with his contemporaries he sympathised with the
Spanish rebels against Franco though unlike some did not fight he did go to
Spain and assisted the propaganda war. He was knighted in 1983 and his work is
highly regarded with his early work keenly sought by book collectors.
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| Title |
Publisher |
Date |
Notes |
| Nine Experiments by SHS |
Private |
1928 |
printed by author |
| Twenty Poems |
Blackwell |
1930 |
no jacket |
| Poems |
Faber |
1933 |
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| Vienna |
Faber |
1934 |
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| The Still Centre |
Faber |
1939 |
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| Selected Poems |
Faber |
1940 |
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| Ruins and Visions |
Faber |
1942 |
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| Spiritual Exercises |
Curwen |
1943 |
125 copies |
| Poems of Dedication |
Faber |
1947 |
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| The Edge of Being |
Faber |
1949 |
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| Sirmione Peninsula |
Faber |
1954 |
no jacket |
| Collected Poems |
Faber |
1955 |
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| Inscriptions |
Poetry Soc' |
1958 |
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| Selected Poems |
Faber |
1965 |
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| The Generous Days |
Faber |
1972 |
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| Recent Poems |
Anvil |
1978 |
400 copies |
Fiction by Stephen Spender
| Title |
Publisher |
Date |
Notes |
| The Burning Cactus |
Faber |
1936 |
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| The Backward Son |
Hogarth |
1940 |
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| Engaged in Writing |
Hamilton |
1958 |
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| The Temple |
Faber |
1988 |
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Plays by Stephen Spender
| Title |
Publisher |
Date |
Notes |
| Trial of a Judge |
Faber |
1938 |
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| Oedipus Trilogy |
Faber |
1985 |
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Prose by Stephen Spender
| Title |
Publisher |
Date |
Notes |
| Destructive Element |
Cape |
1935 |
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| Forward from Liberalism |
Gollancz |
1937 |
no dw |
| The New Realism |
Hogarth |
1939 |
pamphlet |
| Life and the Poet |
Secker |
1942 |
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| Citizens in War |
Harrap |
1945 |
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| European Witness |
Hamilton |
1945 |
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| Poetry Since 1939 |
Longmans |
1946 |
no dj |
| World within World |
Hamilton |
1951 |
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| Learning Laughter |
Weidenfeld |
1952 |
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| The Creative Element |
Hamilton |
1953 |
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| Making of a Poem |
Hamilton |
1955 |
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| Struggle of the modern |
Hamilton |
1963 |
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| Year of the Young Rebels |
Weidenfeld |
1969 |
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| Love Hate Relations |
Hamilton |
1974 |
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| TS Eliot |
Fontana |
1975 |
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| The Thirties and After |
Fontana |
1975 |
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| Letters to Christopher |
Sparrow |
1980 |
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| China Diary |
Hudson |
1982 |
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| Journals 1939-83 |
Faber |
1985 |
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