Resultado da Busca
Air Raid. Stephen Spender’s poem ‘Air Raid’ depicts the impact of the Blitz or German Luftwaffe air strike on the United Kingdom. In this room like a bowl of flowers filled with light. Family eyes look down on the white ceiling. Pages of a book, and the white ceiling. Like starch of a nurse, reflects a calm feeling.
History of the Trust. The Trust was established in 1997 to honour Stephen Spender’s achievements as poet and translator of poetry, and as champion of the rights of creative artists and writers to free expression. Founding members included Valerie Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Czesław Miłosz, Harold Pinter and Natasha Spender.
6 de jan. de 2005 · Thus he is able to provide a far more intimate look at the poet's personal life than has appeared in previous biographies. Featuring 36 unpublished photographs, Stephen Spender: A Literary Life throws light not only on this supremely gifted writer, but also on the literary and social history of the twentieth century.
Stephen Spender was, with his friends W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, one of the poets who came to define the 1930s and Weimar Germany. Spender’s poetry was first discovered by T.S. Eliot, one of the many fabled writers - from Ernest Hemingway and Jean-Paul Sartre to Virginia Woolf and Dylan Thomas - with whom he became friends. He was ...
Sir Stephen Harold Spender (1909-1995), poet, critic, translator, travel writer, and English man of letters, first came to prominence as a poet of social protest in the 1930s. Stephen Spender was born February 28, 1909, the son of well-to-do, accomplished parents. His father, Edward Harold Spender, was himself a novelist and journalist.
Born in London but bred in Canada, it was choirs, musicals and theatre that propelled Stephen's life into a series of musically dictated chapters. A narrowly missed big break in his acting career inspired Stephen to focus on his solo music career, which led to the artist working full time as a busker in Vancouver. From these humble beginnings ...
Stephen Spender, U.S. Consultant in Poetry, 1965-1966. Photo credit: Humphrey Spender. Stephen Spender was born in London, England, in 1909. He served as the 17th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1965 to 1966, and published 23 poetry collections, including Twenty Poems (1930), The Still Centre (1939), and The Generous Days ...
