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Stephen Spender (1909–1995)

Auteur de Le Temple

108+ oeuvres 2,191 utilisateurs 19 critiques 2 Favoris

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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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Stephen Spender

Le Temple (1929) 367 exemplaires
Autobiographie, 1909-1950 (1951) 321 exemplaires
China Diary (1982) 102 exemplaires
Journaux : 1939-1983 (1985) 100 exemplaires
Selected Poems (1940) 92 exemplaires
Eliot (1975) — Auteur — 89 exemplaires
Collected Poems, 1928-1985 (1985) 84 exemplaires
Great German Short Stories (1960) — Directeur de publication — 83 exemplaires
W.H. Auden : A Tribute (1975) — Directeur de publication — 66 exemplaires
Letters to Christopher (1980) 53 exemplaires
Poems (1933) 44 exemplaires
Dolphins (1958) 40 exemplaires
Collected Poems, 1928-1953 (1955) 32 exemplaires
The year of the young rebels (1969) 30 exemplaires
The Struggle of the Modern (1963) 28 exemplaires
The Making of a Poem. (1955) 26 exemplaires
The Forward Book of Poetry 1993 (1992) 23 exemplaires
Forward from liberalism (1937) 23 exemplaires
The Generous Days (1971) 22 exemplaires
Selected Poems (2009) 21 exemplaires
Poems of Dedication (1947) 17 exemplaires
Littérature engagée (roman) (1958) 17 exemplaires
A Choice of Shelley's Verse (1971) 16 exemplaires
The burning cactus (1936) 15 exemplaires
Vienna (1935) 14 exemplaires
Collected Poems (1955) 13 exemplaires
Trial of a judge (1938) 13 exemplaires
Learning laughter (1952) 13 exemplaires
European Witness (1946) 12 exemplaires
Air Raids (1943) 10 exemplaires
The Creative Element (1953) 9 exemplaires
The Edge of Being (1949) 9 exemplaires
Shelley (1964) 9 exemplaires
Selected Poems of Stephen Spender (2015) 6 exemplaires
The writer's dilemma — Introduction — 6 exemplaires
Henry Moore : Stonehenge (1974) 6 exemplaires
Life and the Poet (1942) 6 exemplaires
Botticelli (1945) 5 exemplaires
Citizens in war, and after (1945) 5 exemplaires
Il diario di Sintra (2012) 5 exemplaires
Poems for Spain (1939) — Directeur de publication — 5 exemplaires
Un regard (1990) 5 exemplaires
Poetry Since 1939 (1946) 5 exemplaires
New Selected Journals, 1939-1995 (2012) 4 exemplaires
The backward son (1940) 3 exemplaires
Encounter (magazine) — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
EUROPE IN PHOTOGRAPHS. (1951) 2 exemplaires
New poems, 1956 2 exemplaires
Encounter No. 142 1 exemplaire
Encounter No.92 1 exemplaire
Encounter No.141 1 exemplaire
Sirmione peninsula 1 exemplaire
Encounter No. 97 1 exemplaire
Encounter No.155 1 exemplaire
LAWRENCE GOWING 1 exemplaire
L'Idiot et la princesse (1997) 1 exemplaire
The Express 1 exemplaire
Judas Iscariot 1 exemplaire
Regum ultima ratio 1 exemplaire
Twenty poems 1 exemplaire
Recent poems (1978) 1 exemplaire
Poems Garcia Lorca (1939) 1 exemplaire
Inscriptions 1 exemplaire

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Au-dessous du volcan (1947) — Introduction, quelques éditions4,377 exemplaires
Elégies de Duino (1923) — Traducteur, quelques éditions1,723 exemplaires
Collected Poems (1976) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions1,500 exemplaires
Marie Stuart (1800) — Traducteur, quelques éditions846 exemplaires
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (1955) — Traducteur; Traducteur — 697 exemplaires
The Man Outside : Play & stories (1956) — Introduction — 554 exemplaires
[ASSASSIN'S CLOAK] by (Author)Taylor, Irene on Nov-11-03 (2000) — Contributeur, quelques éditions550 exemplaires
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contributeur — 545 exemplaires
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Contributeur, quelques éditions443 exemplaires
Le dieu des ténèbres. (1944) — Contributeur — 426 exemplaires
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology (1992) — Contributeur — 389 exemplaires
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributeur — 333 exemplaires
The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) — Contributeur, quelques éditions284 exemplaires
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Contributeur — 275 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1950) — Contributeur, quelques éditions264 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Contributeur — 236 exemplaires
The Pleasure of Reading (1992) — Contributeur — 188 exemplaires
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Contributeur — 158 exemplaires
Goethe's Faust, Parts I & II: An Abridged Version (1951) — Traducteur, quelques éditions158 exemplaires
Granta 30: New Europe (1990) — Contributeur — 145 exemplaires
The Novices of Sais (1802) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions138 exemplaires
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contributeur — 100 exemplaires
The Dylan Companion: A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan (1990) — Contributeur, quelques éditions96 exemplaires
Great Writings of Goethe (1958) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions87 exemplaires
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires
Hockney's Alphabet (1991) 59 exemplaires
The Life of the Virgin Mary (1913) — Traducteur, quelques éditions53 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse (1980) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
Junge Männer (1773) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Edition (1905) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
A poet and his camera (1968) — Préface, quelques éditions34 exemplaires
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
The Poems of P.B. Shelley (1971) — Directeur de publication — 30 exemplaires
The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (1934) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
The Deadly Innocents: Portraits of Children Who Kill (0701) — Préface — 26 exemplaires
Penguin Modern Poets 23: Geoffrey Grigson, Edwin Muir, Adrian Stokes (1973) — Directeur de publication — 23 exemplaires
Twentieth Century Interpretations of 1984 (1971) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
De dag dat je brief kwam Amnesty International poëziebundel (1988) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
Herbert List, photographs 1930-1970 (1976) — Introduction — 15 exemplaires
Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration (1991) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Westminster in War (1947) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions13 exemplaires
The Penguin New Writing No. 27 (1946) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
The Penguin New Writing No. 23 (1942) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
The Penguin New Writing No. 18 (1943) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Twenty-Three Modern Stories (1963) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Tredive mesterfortællinger — Auteur, quelques éditions3 exemplaires
Poèmes élisabéthains (1969) — Préface — 3 exemplaires
The Penguin New Writing No. 21 (1944) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
The Paris Review 96 1985 Summer (1985) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Direction Vol.1 No.3 (April-June 1935) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire

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"Un mundo dentro del mundo, la célebre autobiografía de Stephen Spender, contiene vívidos retratos de Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Auden o Cristopher Isherwood, y una fascinante descripción de la Europa de los años veinte y treinta: el frío brillo de la vida universitaria inglesa, el desenfreno erótico y cultural de la Alemania de entreguerras, y un relato distanciado y personalísimo de la participación del autor en la guerra civil española."
 
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BibliotecaJosepCosta | 3 autres critiques | Sep 26, 2023 |
This is an enjoyable book, although rather inconsistent. Some of the passages, especially those that are heavy on dialogue, are awkward and with a purpose that is far from clear. Others are bright and evocative. Although none of the characters is simple, nor are they alive or engaging, particularly in the first part of the book.
 
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robfwalter | 3 autres critiques | Jul 31, 2023 |
A lyrical and fascinating memoir, this book was written when the author was still in his forties. Included here is an introduction for this new 1994 edition. I enjoyed the references to both Auden and Isherwood, two of my favorite authors, while Spender's prose style complements his own poetry.
 
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jwhenderson | 3 autres critiques | Dec 26, 2022 |
The Fontana Modern Masters was a series of pocket guides on writers, philosophers, and other thinkers and theorists who shaped the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century, and the series editor was Frank Kermode who was Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. Each volume aimed to be an introduction to the life and writings.

T.S. Eliot left instructions that his biography should not be written. (p. 22). Yet, in The function of criticism he had written that 'the critic should be a master of fact‘ and these facts include biographical information about the writer. Eliot's idea that his relationship to his readership should be through his work, and not through his biography has now become a mainstream idea about the appreciation of literary works. Descpite his caution about his private life, Eliot did let out some biographical information about himself, for example in his correspondence.

The author of this short biography and critical introduction to T.S. Eliot was Stephen Spender. Spender himself was a poet, and wrote a novel, travel and autobiographical works, as well as literary criticism. He was a contemporary of T.S Eliot and a friend, and in turn a contemporary of the friends they had in common, many of whom were also writers, poets and scholars active during the same period. Thus, Spender writes: "On one occasion I was having tea with Leonard and Virginia Woolf when Eliot was also a fellow-guest." (p. 129) Stephen Spender first met T.S. Eliot in 1928.

Despite these close personal relations, Eliot is foremostly a critical introduction to Eliot's works, based of wide reading of primary and secondary sources. One gets the feeling that the author secretly honoured Eliot's wish. Spender's analyses and interpretation of Eliot's works is precise and elegant, and obviously Spender's writing style is superior to any academic scholar, with very, very few exceptions.

Besides having Frank Kermode as the series editor, the acknowledgements also mention the contributions of Eliot's wife, Valerie Eliot, Professor John Bayley and Mrs Bayley (Iris Murdoch).
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edwinbcn | Dec 27, 2021 |

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