Stephen Spender

Also known as Sir Stephen Harold Spender, Sir Stephen Spender

English poet and man of letters (1909–1995)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1909
Died: 1995
Works: 209

Top works

Poems By Stephen Spender
The Struggle of the Modern
The concise encyclopedia of English and American poets and poetry;
The temple
T S Eliot.

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Australia

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners: 551
Total plays: 2,031

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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Spender">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,351x
Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 22,901x

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Quotes

“Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light, and then resign it for the grave.”
“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”
“I simply had to get there.”
“There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.”
“When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.”
“I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1909-02-28 ) 28 February 1909, Kensington , London, England
Died: 16 July 1995 (1995-07-16) (aged 86), St John's Wood , London, England
Occupation: Poet, novelist, essayist
Education: University College, Oxford
Spouse: Inez Pearn ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1936 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1939 ) Natasha Litvin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 )
Children: Elizabeth Matthew

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Commons category: Stephen Spender
date of birth: 1909-02-28
date of death: 1995-07-16
birth name: Stephen Harold Spender
name in native language: Stephen Spender
P12749: James H. Wilkinson

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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 injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1965.

Early life