Stephen Spender Archives All Years = 39 Books, 1 Film, 241 Articles Decade 1930s = 7 Books, 18 Articles Year 1932 = 1 Article Year 1933 = 1 Book, 4 Articles Year 1934 = 1 Book, 4 Articles Year 1935 = 1 Book, 2 Articles Year 1936 = 1 Book, 1 Article Year 1937 = 1 Book, 3 Articles Year 1938 = 1 Book, 2 Articles Year 1939 = 1 Book, 1 Article Decade 1940s = 8 Books, 67 Articles Year 1940 = 1 Book, 8 Articles Year 1941 = 6 Articles Year 1942 = 2 Books, 4 Articles Year 1943 = 4 Articles Year 1944 = 8 Articles Year 1945 = 7 Articles Year 1946 = 1 Book, 4 Articles Year 1947 = 2 Books, 3 Articles Year 1948 = 1 Book, 9 Articles Year 1949 = 1 Book, 14 Articles Decade 1950s = 5 Books, 56 Articles Year 1950 = 1 Article Year 1951 = 1 Book, 4 Articles Year 1952 = 2 Articles Year 1953 = 1 Book, 13 Articles Year 1954 = 1 Book, 3 Articles Year 1955 = 1 Book, 3 Articles Year 1956 = 9 Articles Year 1957 = 6 Articles Year 1958 = 1 Book, 8 Articles Year 1959 = 7 Articles Decade 1960s = 5 Books, 43 Articles Year 1960 = 1 Book, 4 Articles Year 1961 = 3 Articles Year 1962 = 1 Book, 9 Articles Year 1963 = 1 Book, 6 Articles Year 1964 = 1 Book, 3 Articles Year 1965 = 3 Articles Year 1966 = 5 Articles Year 1967 = 6 Articles Year 1968 = 2 Articles Year 1969 = 1 Book, 2 Articles Decade 1970s = 8 Books, 38 Articles Year 1970 = 2 Articles Year 1971 = 1 Book, 7 Articles Year 1972 = 1 Book, 8 Articles Year 1973 = 1 Book, 7 Articles Year 1974 = 1 Book, 3 Articles Year 1975 = 2 Books, 1 Article Year 1976 = 3 Articles Year 1977 = 1 Article Year 1978 = 1 Book, 4 Articles Year 1979 = 1 Book, 2 Articles Decade 1980s = 5 Books, 18 Articles Year 1980 = 2 Articles Year 1981 = 3 Articles Year 1982 = 1 Book, 3 Articles Year 1983 = 4 Articles Year 1984 = 3 Articles Year 1985 = 3 Books, 2 Articles Year 1986 = 1 Article Year 1988 = 1 Book Decade 1990s = 1 Article Year 1995 = 1 Article Decade 2000s = 1 Book, 1 Film Year 2004 = 1 Film Year 2005 = 1 Book Stephen Spender • 281 Items / 39 Books, 117 Articles, 81 Reviews, 43 Poems, 1 Film
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Books
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American Diction v. American Poetry (3 Reviews) Stephen Spender
American into English, by G.V. Carey
American into English by G.V. CareySelected Poems by Wallace StevensCollected Poems by Elizabeth Jennings and Michael SchmidtArticles
Americanization Stephen Spender
Books and the Arts
The Angel Stephen Spender
Books and the Arts
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The Auden-Isherwood Collaboration (Review) Stephen Spender
Two Great Plays, by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood
Two Great Plays by W.H. Auden and Christopher IsherwoodThe Backward Son (1940) Stephen Spender
1 Review, 1 Readable
Books
Being Young Poets Stephen Spender
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Bleeding Poetry (Review) Stephen Spender
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, by Stephen Mitchell and Rainer Maria Rilke
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Stephen Mitchell and Rainer Maria Rilke [+]
Books/The Terrible Century (Review) Stephen Spender
Modern Times, by Paul M. Johnson
Modern Times by Paul M. Johnson [+]
"Brilliant Athens and Us" (Review) Stephen Spender
Eternal Greece, by Rex Warner and Martin Hurlimann
Eternal Greece by Rex Warner and Martin Hurlimann [+]
The Brilliant Mr. MacNeice (Review) Stephen Spender
The Strings are False, by Louis MacNeice and E.R. Dodds
The Strings are False by Louis MacNeice and E.R. Dodds Britain: Culture in Official Channels Stephen Spender
Does the English Writer Have a Chance?
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Britain's "Pink Decade" (Review) Stephen Spender
Communism and British Intellectuals, by Neal Wood
Communism and British Intellectuals by Neal Wood The Burning Cactus (1936) Stephen Spender
4 Reviews, 3 Readable
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Can Poetry Be Reviewed? (7 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Moly, and My Sad Captains, by Thom Gunn
Moly, and My Sad Captains by Thom GunnWritings to an Unfinished Accompaniment by W.S. MerwinBraving the Elements by James MerrillWintering Out by Seamus HeaneyThe Crystal Lithium by James SchuylerThey Feed They Lion by Philip LevineA Change of Hearts by Kenneth Koch [+]
Cavafy: The Historic and Erotic (Review) Stephen Spender
Passions and Ancient Days, by C.P. Cavafy
Passions and Ancient Days by C.P. Cavafy Books in Review
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The Chairman (Review) Stephen Spender
A Sense of the Present, by William Phillips
A Sense of the Present by William Phillips [+]
Changeling (Review) Stephen Spender
Continuous, by Tony Harrison
Continuous by Tony Harrison China Diary (1982) Stephen Spender and David Hockney
3 Reviews
A Choice of Shelley's Verse (1971) Stephen Spender
1 Review, 1 Readable
Collected Poems, 1928-1953 (1955) Stephen Spender
4 Reviews, 2 Readable
Collected Poems, 1928-1985 (1985) Stephen Spender
4 Reviews
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The Conscience of the Huxleys (4 Reviews) Stephen Spender
The Huxleys, by Ronald W. Clark
The Huxleys by Ronald W. ClarkMemories by Julian HuxleyLetters of Aldous Huxley by Grover Smith and Aldous HuxleyThis Timeless Moment by Laura Archera Huxley The Cradle Will Fall (2004 Film) Rob W. King
Books and Arts
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Creating in the Mind a Map (Review) Stephen Spender
The Auden Generation, by Samuel L. Hynes
The Auden Generation by Samuel L. HynesThe Creative Element (1954) Stephen Spender
A Study of Vision, Despair and Orthodoxy Among Some Modern Writers
3 Reviews, 2 Readable
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The Cult of Joe (2 Reviews) Stephen Spender
The Letters of J. R. Ackerley, by Neville Braybrooke and J.R. Ackerley
The Letters of J. R. Ackerley by Neville Braybrooke and J.R. AckerleyThe Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley by Diana Petre Books and the Arts
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Dame Edith Sitwell's Show (Review) Stephen Spender
The Last Years of a Rebel, by Elizabeth Salter
The Last Years of a Rebel by Elizabeth SalterThe Destructive Element (1935) Stephen Spender
A Study of Modern Writers and Beliefs
7 Reviews, 4 Readable
From a Diary
Dismantling Politics Stephen Spender
E.M. Forster Stephen Spender
The Edge of Being (1949) Stephen Spender
Poems
5 Reviews, 1 Readable
Editorial Stephen Spender
Ghosts of a Renascence
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Elbe Swans and Other Poets (Review) Stephen Spender
The Meeting at Telgte, by Gunter Grass
The Meeting at Telgte by Gunter Grass Engaged in Writing (1958) Stephen Spender
Two Novels
7 Reviews, 2 Readable
Books and Comments
English Painting In The Fifties Stephen Spender
Books and the Arts
Essays and Asides Stephen Spender
Writers in America, II
Books and the Arts
Essays and Asides Stephen Spender
What's Wrong with UNESCO?
European Witness (1947) Stephen Spender
6 Reviews, 2 Readable
Faust's Song Stephen Spender
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'The First Man on Earth' (Review) Stephen Spender
Kleist: A Biography, by Joachim Maass
Kleist: A Biography by Joachim Maass [+]
Form and Feeling (Review) Stephen Spender
The Seven-League Crutches, by Randall Jarrell
The Seven-League Crutches by Randall Jarrell Books
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Forster's Queer Novel (Review) Stephen Spender
Maurice, by E.M. Forster
Maurice by E.M. Forster [+]
Forster's Shadow (Review) Stephen Spender
Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, Vol I: 1879-1920, by Mary Lago, P.N. Furbank, and E.M...
Selected Letters of E.M. Forster, Vol I: 1879-1920 by Mary Lago, P.N. Furbank, and E.M. Forster Forward from Liberalism (1937) Stephen Spender
7 Reviews, 4 Readable
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Franz Kafka (2 Reviews) Stephen Spender
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
The Trial by Franz KafkaThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka From a Diary Stephen Spender
The Generous Days (1972) Stephen Spender
1 Review
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A German Romanticist (Review) Stephen Spender
Holderlin: Poems, by Michael Hamburger and Friedrich Holderlin
Holderlin: Poems by Michael Hamburger and Friedrich Holderlin [+]
The Glow of Irreality (Review) Stephen Spender
Sounds, by Wassily Kandinsky
Sounds by Wassily Kandinsky Guerre de Plume Stephen Spender
Reply
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Guilty Secrets (Review) Stephen Spender
The Royal Game, and Other Stories, by Stefan Zweig
The Royal Game, and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig [+]
Heaven Can't Wait (Review) Stephen Spender
Mirabell: Books of Number, by James Merrill
Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill Henry Moore: Sculptures in Landscape (1979) Stephen Spender and Geoffrey Shakerley
1 Review
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A Heroic Drama (Review) Stephen Spender
Jacob's Dream, by Richard Beer-Hofmann
Jacob's Dream by Richard Beer-Hofmann Hitler's New Horizon Stephen Spender
Ultimate Ukraine
Books and Men
"Horizon" and Cyril Connolly Stephen Spender
In Defense of James Wright Merrill Leffler and Stephen Spender
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In Eliot's Cave (5 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Golden Codgers, by Richard Ellmann
Golden Codgers by Richard EllmannEliot in His Time by A. Walton LitzEliot in Perspective by Graham MartinThe Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot by William M. ChaceGreat Tom by T.S. Matthews [+]
The Inner Mann (Review) Stephen Spender
The Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955, by Richard Winston, Clara Winston, and Thomas Mann
The Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955 by Richard Winston, Clara Winston, and Thomas Mann Inside the Cage Stephen Spender
Interview Stephen Spender
The Art of Poetry XXV
Books and the Arts
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Isherwood's Heroes (Review) Stephen Spender
Down There on a Visit, by Christopher Isherwood
Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood [+]
Issyvoo's Conversion (Review) Stephen Spender
My Guru and His Disciple, by Christopher Isherwood
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood Books
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James Baldwin (Review) Stephen Spender
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time by James BaldwinJournals, 1939-1983 (1985) Stephen Spender and John Goldsmith
3 Reviews
Judas Iscariot Stephen Spender
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The Last Ditch (5 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Crow, by Ted Hughes
Crow by Ted HughesNo Jerusalem But This by Samuel MenasheBriefings: Poems Small and Easy by A.R. AmmonsUplands: New Poems by A.R. AmmonsCollected Poems by James A. Wright Learning Laughter (1953) Stephen Spender
5 Reviews, 1 Readable
Editorial
Letter to a Young Writer Stephen Spender
Letters Sir John Cockcroft, William Empson, and M.J. Ross-MacDonald, ...
Letters Jean-Paul Sartre, Charles M. Holmes, and Stephen Spender, ...
Letters Owen Lattimore, I.F. Stone, G. Singh, and Stephen Spender, ...
Letters Stanley Kauffmann, Robert Chappetta, and Joan Didion, ...
Life and the Poet (1942) Stephen Spender
2 Reviews, 2 Readable
Books and the Arts
London Gray, New York Gold Stephen Spender
London Letter Stephen Spender
London Letter Stephen Spender
Love-Hate Relations (1974) Stephen Spender
English and American Sensibilities
4 Reviews
The Making of a Poem (1962) Stephen Spender
2 Reviews
Man and Woman Stephen Spender
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Man of Distinction (Review) Stephen Spender
Democracy and the Student Left, by George F. Kennan
Democracy and the Student Left by George F. Kennan [+]
Meat Loaf (Review) Stephen Spender
What's for Dinner?, by James Schuyler
What's for Dinner? by James Schuyler [+]
Melancholic and Magic History (Review) Stephen Spender
History, by Elsa Morante
History by Elsa Morante [+]
The Miniature and the Deluge (2 Reviews) Stephen Spender
The Fox in the Attic, by Richard Hughes
The Fox in the Attic by Richard HughesPantaloon by Philip Toynbee [+]
Miracle of Romanticism (Review) Stephen Spender
Friedrich Holderlin: Poems and Fragments, by Michael Hamburger and Friedrich Holderlin
Friedrich Holderlin: Poems and Fragments by Michael Hamburger and Friedrich Holderlin Books & Comment
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The Most Ecstatic Poetry Ever Written (Review) Stephen Spender
The Poems of St. John of the Cross, by John Frederick Nims
The Poems of St. John of the Cross by John Frederick NimsMy Boy Came Home Stefan George and Stephen Spender, Translator, ...
New Collected Poems (2005) Michael Brett and Stephen Spender
1 Review
Literature and the Arts
The New Orthodoxies Stephen Spender
Literature and the Arts
The New Orthodoxies Stephen Spender
Literature and the Arts
The New Orthodoxies Stephen Spender
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A New Poet (Review) Stephen Spender
Awake! and Other Wartime Poems, by W.R. Rodgers
Awake! and Other Wartime Poems by W.R. Rodgers [+]
The New Wells in a New World (Review) Stephen Spender
The Shape of Things to Come, by H.G. Wells
The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells Notes from a Diary Stephen Spender
European Prosperity
Notes from a Diary Stephen Spender
The Future of State Power
Notes from a Diary Stephen Spender
Rembrandt at Rotterdam
Notes from a Diary Stephen Spender
Dupes and again Dupes?
Books and the Arts
O, Omega, Invocation Stephen Spender
Oedipus Trilogy (1985) Stephen Spender
King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonos, Antigone: A Version
2 Reviews
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One Man's Conscience (Review) Stephen Spender
Such, Such Were the Joys, and Other Essays, by George Orwell
Such, Such Were the Joys, and Other Essays by George Orwell Books and the Arts
An Open Letter to Pravda Stephen Spender
Articles
A Parallel World Stephen Spender
Perfection Stephen Spender
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The Perfectly Candid Man (5 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Sowing, by Leonard Woolf
Sowing by Leonard WoolfGrowing by Leonard WoolfBeginning Again by Leonard WoolfDownhill All The Way by Leonard WoolfThe Journey Not the Arrival Matters by Leonard Woolf [+]
The Pink Decade (Review) S.S.
In the Thirties, by Edward Upward
In the Thirties by Edward Upward Poems (1933) Stephen Spender
11 Reviews, 7 Readable
Poems of Dedication (1946) Stephen Spender
5 Reviews, 1 Readable
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Poetic Blunderbussing (Review) Stephen Spender
Europa and the Bull, and Other Poems, by William Robert Rodgers
Europa and the Bull, and Other Poems by William Robert Rodgers Poetry Feature Stephen Spender
Revisions
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The Poetry of Montale (3 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Provisional Conclusions, by Eugenio Montale
Provisional Conclusions by Eugenio MontaleXenia by Eugenio MontaleThe Butterfly of Dinard by Eugenio Montale [+]
Poetry of the Unspeakable (2 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Winning Hearts and Minds, by Larry Rottmann, Jan Barry, and Basil T. Paquet
Winning Hearts and Minds by Larry Rottmann, Jan Barry, and Basil T. PaquetObscenities by Michael Casey Books and the Arts
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Poetry vs. Language Engineering (Review) Stephen Spender
How Does a Poem Mean?, by John Ciardi
How Does a Poem Mean? by John CiardiPoets and Critics Stephen Spender
The Forgotten Difference
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Politics and a Poet (Review) Stephen Spender
Children in Exile, by James Fenton
Children in Exile by James Fenton [+]
Private Eye (Review) Stephen Spender
Homage to Daniel Shays, by Gore Vidal
Homage to Daniel Shays by Gore Vidal [+]
Rainer Maria Rilke (Review) Stephen Spender
Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke [+]
Randall Jarrell's Landscape (Review) Stephen Spender
Losses, by Randall Jarrell
Losses by Randall Jarrell [+]
Realities like Ghosts (Review) Stephen Spender
The Winged Chariot, and Other Poems, by Walter de la Mare
The Winged Chariot, and Other Poems by Walter de la Mare Selected Notices
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Recent Poetry (6 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Green Song and Other Poems, by Edith Sitwell
Green Song and Other Poems by Edith SitwellA Lost Season by Roy FullerChosen Poems by Frederic ProkoschThe Sun My Monument by Laurie LeeThe Burning of the Leaves by Laurence BinyonShadows of Chrysanthemums by E.J. ScovellReturning to Vienna 1947 (1948) Stephen Spender
Nine Sketches
1 Review
Selected Notices
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Can We be Educated up to Art?' (2 Reviews) Stephen Spender
God and Evil, by C.E.M. Joad
God and Evil by C.E.M. JoadMan, the Master by Gerald Heard [+]
La Bonne Chere en Angleterre (Review) Stephen Spender
The Heritage of Symbolism, by C.M. Bowra
The Heritage of Symbolism by C.M. Bowra Selected Notice
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A Homecoming (Review) Stephen Spender
Other Men's Flowers, by Archibald P. Wavell
Other Men's Flowers by Archibald P. WavellBooks and the Arts
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The Riddle of Shaw (2 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Sixteen Self-Sketches, by Bernard Shaw
Sixteen Self-Sketches by Bernard ShawDays with Bernard Shaw by Stephen WinstenBooks & Comment
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Robert Lowell's Family Album (Review) Stephen Spender
Life Studies, by Robert Lowell
Life Studies by Robert LowellBooks and the Arts
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Roethke: The Lost Son (Review) Stephen Spender
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, by Theodore Roethke
The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore RoethkeRuins and Visions (1942) Stephen Spender
Poems, 1934-1942
8 Reviews, 5 Readable
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Rupert Brooke (Review) Stephen Spender
Rupert Brooke, by Armand Guibert
Rupert Brooke by Armand Guibert [+]
The Sack and Enslavement of the Mind: Two Views (Review) Stephen Spender
The Predatory Jailer
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz Books and the Arts
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Sartre's "Existential Comedy" (Review) Stephen Spender
The Reprieve, by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Reprieve by Jean-Paul SartreSelected Poems (1964) Stephen Spender
1 Review, 1 Readable
Some Japanese Observations Stephen Spender and Angus Wilson
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Songs of an Unsung Classicist (Review) Stephen Spender
Collected Poems, 1925-1948, by Louis MacNeice
Collected Poems, 1925-1948 by Louis MacNeice Literature and the Arts
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Speaking for Spain (Review) Stephen Spender
Federico Garcia Lorca: An Appreciation, by Roy Campbell
Federico Garcia Lorca: An Appreciation by Roy Campbell [+]
Speaking of Shakespeare (Review) Stephen Spender
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare [+]
Statesman Manque (2 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Byron, by Frederic Raphael
Byron by Frederic RaphaelLord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals by Leslie A. Marchand and George Gordon Byron The Still Centre (1939) Stephen Spender
1 Review, 1 Readable
The Strange Death Stephen Spender
A Story
The Struggle of the Modern (1963) Stephen Spender
2 Reviews, 1 Readable
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Survivor (Review) Stephen Spender
The Assault, by Harry Mulisch
The Assault by Harry Mulisch T. S. Eliot (1975) Stephen Spender
5 Reviews, 2 Readable
The Temple (1988) Stephen Spender
1 Review
The Thirties and After (1978) Stephen Spender
Poetry, Politics, People, 1933-1970
9 Reviews, 2 Readable
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Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" (Review) Stephen Spender
Doctor Faustus, by Thomas Mann
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann Books and the Arts
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Three Little Sitwells and How They Grew (Review) Stephen Spender
Taken Care Of, by Edith Sitwell
Taken Care Of by Edith Sitwell [+]
Times and Lives (2 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Hired to Kill, by John Morris
Hired to Kill by John MorrisSowing by Leonard Woolf Books
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Tow Witty Women (2 Reviews) Stephen Spender
Venice Observed, by Mary McCarthy
Venice Observed by Mary McCarthyThe Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay [+]
Traveling Light (Review) Stephen Spender
A Time of Gifts, by Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor Trial of a Judge (1938) Stephen Spender
A Tragedy in Five Acts
3 Reviews, 3 Readable
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The Truth About Orwell (3 Reviews) Stephen Spender
The Unknown Orwell, by Peter Stansky and William Abrahams
The Unknown Orwell by Peter Stansky and William AbrahamsGeorge Orwell by Raymond WilliamsThe Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell Van der Lubbe Stephen Spender
Articles
Van der Lubbe Stephen Spender
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Victims of Politics (Review) Stephen Spender
1934~~Nineteen Thirty-Four, by Alberto Moravia
1934~~Nineteen Thirty-Four by Alberto Moravia Vienna (1934) Stephen Spender
3 Reviews, 2 Readable
W. H. Auden: A Tribute (1975) Stephen Spender
5 Reviews, 2 Readable
Books and Men
W.H. Auden and His Poetry Stephen Spender
War and Peace Stephen Spender
II - Rhineland Journal
From England
War and the Writer Stephen Spender
Books and the Arts
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Warnings from the Grave (Review) Stephen Spender
Ariel, by Sylvia Plath
Ariel by Sylvia PlathFrom a Diary
Warsaw Impressions Stephen Spender
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The Weimar Wind Tunnel (Review) Stephen Spender
Art and Politics in the Weimar Period, by John Willett
Art and Politics in the Weimar Period by John Willett [+]
Where Is Dionysius? (Review) Stephen Spender
In Search of Theatre, by Eric Bentley
In Search of Theatre by Eric Bentley [+]
Wilson Among the Rules (Review) Stephen Spender
Europe Without Baedeker, by Edmund Wilson
Europe Without Baedeker by Edmund Wilson [+]
Words for Words (Review) Stephen Spender
Words for the Wind, by Theodore Roethke
Words for the Wind by Theodore Roethke World Within World (1951) Stephen Spender
The Autobiography of Stephen Spender
11 Reviews, 3 Readable
The Year of the Young Rebels (1969) Stephen Spender
4 Reviews, 1 Readable
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1943: To Be or Not To Be? (Review) Stephen Spender
Rescue in Denmark, by Harold Flender
Rescue in Denmark by Harold Flender No Items Found