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Read all poems of Stephen Spender and infos about Stephen Spender. Sir Stephen Harold Spender was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965. Early Years. Spender was born in Kensington, London, to journalist, Edward Harold Spender and Violet Hilda Schuster, a painter and poet. He went first to Hall School in Hampstead and then at thirteen to Gresham's School, Holt and later Charlecote. Poem Hunter all poems of by Stephen Spender poems. 18 poems of Stephen Spender. Phenomenal Woman, Still I Rise, The Road Not Taken, If You Forget Me, and critic Stephen Spender was born in 1909 in London. He was a member of the generation of British poets who came to prominence in the 1930s, aPoet and critic Stephen Spender was born in 1909 in London. He was a member of the generation of British poets who came to prominence in the 1930s, a. Poet and critic Stephen Spender was born in 1909 in London. He was a member of the generation of British poets who came to prominence in the 1930s, a group-sometimes referred to as the Oxford Poets-that included W. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, C. Day Lewis, and Louis MacNeice. 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 injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965. Spender was born in Kensington, London, to journalist Harold Spender and Violet Hilda Schuster, a painter and poet, of German Jewish heritage. He went first to Hall School in Hampstead and then at 13 to Gresham's. Spender's books of poetry include Twenty Poems 1930, Vienna 1934, The Still Centre 1939, Poems of Dedication 1946, and The Generous Days 1971. Spender was professor of English at University College, London, from 1970 to 1977, and gave frequent lecture tours in the United States. He was knighted in 1983. Spender died on July 16, 1995. A Selected Bibliography. Collected Poems 1928-1985 1986 Collected Poems, 1928-1953 1955 Poems of Dedication 1936 Selected Poems 1974 The Generous Days 1971 The Still Centre 1939 Twenty Poems 1930 Vienna 1934. My poems 17 Titles list. Stephen Spender Follow. The Pylons. The secret of these hills was stone, and cottages Of that stone made, And crumbling roads That turned on sudden hidden villages. Now over these small hills, they have built the concrete That trails black wire Pylons, those pillars Bare like nude giant girls that have no secret. The valley with its gilt and evening look And the green chestnut Of customary root, Are mocked dry like the parched bed of a brook. But far above and far as sight endures Like whips of anger With lightning's danger There runs the quick perspective of th. Stephen Spender: English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. Daylight Coming, No Ones Looking, Summertime и другие песни. Listen free to Stephen Spender Stephen Spender Red Sripe, Crazy World and more. 10 tracks 44:47. Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE, February 28, 1909, London July 16, 1995 was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. View wiki. Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice, with whom he was to develop a poetics of engagement, writing powerfully of the confusion and alarm of 1930s Europe. He visited Spain during the Civil War, in 1937, where he assisted the Republican cause with propaganda activity. His post-war memoir World within World was recognised as one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have come out of the 1930s and 1940s, distilling a distin. Poems by Stephen Spender book. Inscribed to Christopher IsherwoodBook of poetryIncludes