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    Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social...
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  • pianist Natasha Spender (née Litvin) and the poet, novelist and essayist Stephen Spender. She studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Drama...
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  • Encounter was a literary magazine founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991. Published...
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  • English pianist and author. She was the second wife of the writer Sir Stephen Spender. She was born in London. Her maternal family emigrated to Britain as...
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  • father, the poet Stephen Spender. He also wrote Within Tuscany: Reflections on a Time and Place (1992, Viking, and 1993, Penguin.) Spender was born in London...
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  • The God that Failed (category Works by Stephen Spender)
    essays by Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright. The common theme of the essays is the authors'...
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  • socialised with a coterie of expatriates that included W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward, and Paul Bowles. As a gay man, he also interacted with...
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  • senior figures in literary London, T. S. Eliot, Geoffrey Grigson and Stephen Spender. They contacted Thomas and his first poetry volume, 18 Poems, was published...
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  • 1930s that included W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner....
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    1921 and Harold Spender died in 1926. Humphrey had two brothers, the poet Stephen Spender and the scientist and explorer Michael Spender, and one sister...
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