Stephen Spender
Sir Stephen Harold Spender was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1965.
Background
- Born in
- Kensington
- Educated at
- Gresham's SchoolUniversity College, Oxfordlycée Georges-ClemenceauBlundell's SchoolHall School
- Awards
- 🏆 King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry🏆 Knight Bachelor🏆 Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Trending topics shown first"Both Hopkins and Lawrence were religious not just in the ritualistic sense but in the sense of being obsessed with the word — the word made life and truth — with the need to invent a language as direc…"
"Critics of visual arts and of music describe in words — that is to say, a system of signs other than those made by brushes on canvas or chisels into stone or notes of music — those characteristics of …"
"I am very honoured by your wanting to write a life of me. But the fact is I regard my life as rather a failure in the only thing in which I wanted it to succeed. I have not written the books I ought t…"
"There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife."
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Timeline
1909
Born
Birth1995
Died
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