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Spender Stephen
World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender (Modern Library)
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"In this book I am mainly concerned with a few themes: love; poetry; politics; the life of literature....I believe obstinately that, if I am able to write with truth about what has happened to me, this can help others....In this belief I have risked being indiscreet, and I have written occasionally of experiences which seem strange to me myself, and which I have not seen discussed else-where." So begins Stephen Spender's autobiography, widely acclaimed as the twentieth century's greatest memoir. Spender was one of his generation's most celebrated poets, a writer living at the intersection of literature and politics in Europe between the two world wars. His portraits of his friends—Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, and Christopher Isherwood—render a romantic world of literary genius. Spender uses a poet's language to create an honest and tender exploration of amity and the many possibilities of love. First published in 1951, World Within World simultaneously shocked and bedazzled the literary establishment for its frank discussion of Eros in the modern world. Out of print for several years, this Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the critic John Bayley and an Afterword Spender wrote in 1994 describing his reaction to the charges that David Leavitt plagiarized this autobiography in a novel.
Stephen Spender: A Literary Life
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One of the leading poets and cultural icons of the 20th century, Stephen Spender was a prominent writer, literary critic, and social commentator--and close friend of some of the best-know creative talents of his day. Now, in this penetrating biography, John Sutherland paints a vivid portrait of Spender and of the glittering literary world of which he was a part, drawing on exclusive access to Spender's private papers. This briskly paced, compelling narrative illuminates the vast range of Spender's literary, political, and artistic interests. We follow Spender from childhood to his days at Oxford (where he first became friends with W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Isaiah Berlin); to his meteoric rise as poet in the 1930s, while still in his twenties; to his later years as cultural statesman, at home in both Britain and America. We witness many of the century's defining moments through Spender's eyes: the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Cold War, the 1960s sexual revolution, and the rise of America as a cultural force. And along the way, we are introduced to many of Spender's accomplished friends, including Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Cecil Day-Lewis, Joseph Brodsky, Lucian Freud, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, and T.S. Eliot. Perhaps most important, Sutherland has been granted exclusive access to Spender's private papers by his wife Natasha Spender. 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.
The Temple
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“Beyond the wonderful insights ... there is a portrait of the world in the eye of the storm between two world wars. It is a novel of awakening –– awakening to sex, yes ... but also an awakening to the presence of evil in the world and to the possibilities of love and friendship.” –– The Bloomsbury Review
Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism
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The first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's towering literary figures.
Stephen Spender was a minor poet, but a major cultural influence during much of the century. Literary critic, journalist, art critic, social commentator, and friendend of the best-known cultural figures of the modernist and postmodernist periods (Yeats, Woolf, Sartre, Auden, Eliot, Isherwood, Hughes, Brodsky, Ginsberg-a "who's who" of contemporary literature). Spender's writing recorded and distilled the emotional turbulence of many of the century's defining moments: the Spanish Civil War; the rise and fall of Marxism and Nazism; World War II; the human rights struggle after the war; the Vietnam protest, the Cold War, and the 1960s sexual revolution; the rise of America as a cultural and political force. As David Leeming's fascinating biography demonstrates, Stephen Spender's life reflected the complexity and flux of the century in which he lived: his sexual ambivalence, his famous friends, the free-love days in Germany between the wars, the CIA-Encounter scandal. In David Leeming's capable hands, this comprehensive, unauthorized study of Spender is a meditation on modernity itself.
El templo (Spanish Edition)
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Penned in 1929, this autobiographical novel narrates the experiences of a young poet from Oxford vacationing in Germany. Addressing themes such as sexual morality, naturism, and fascism, the novel focuses on the protagonist's spontaneous reaction to the social and cultural atmosphere of the Weimar Republic, a paradise that would promptly disappear under Nazi rule. With increasing tension, lazy afternoons filled with hiking and swimming and nights spent drinking and dancing at nightclubs slowly give way to the growing Nazi threat being felt among the youth the protagonist befriends. Escrita en 1929, esta novela autobiográfica narra las vivencias de un joven poeta de Oxford durante unas vacaciones en Alemania. Tratando temas tales como la moralidad sexual, el naturismo y el facismo, la novela se enfoca sobre la reacción espontánea del narrador ante el universo social y cultural de la República de Weimar, un paraíso que pronto desaparecería bajo el yugo del nazismo. Con una tensión creciente, tardes perezosas de excursiones y natación y noches llenas de copas y bailes lentamente le ceden el paso a la creciente amenaza nazi que comienza a dejarse sentir entre los jóvenes con los cuales el protagonista se hace amigos.
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Summer turns into the silly season for TV networks - Oshkosh Northwestern
Oshkosh Northwestern, WI - Feb 04, 8771
Summer turns into the silly season for TV networksContestants: Two athletes (John Salley and Torrie Wilson), two actors (Stephen Baldwin and Lou Diamond Phillips), a former model (Janice Dickinson), three people whose fame comes from previous reality shows (Heidi Montag, Spender Pratt and Sanjaya
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'Ardent Spirits,' by Reynolds Price - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle, USA - Feb 04, 5607
'Ardent Spirits,' by Reynolds PriceIt involves his relationship with Stephen Spender and serves as the great center of the book, though it is not its soul. Its soul - and all Price's works are known for their souls - is the loving friendship with his straight classmate that runs
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Mark Bloom goes from jet setter to pauper
CNN - Feb 04, 9863
Second, the former big spender is now so cash-strapped that he's planning on using a public defender when his case gets underway this summer. Bloom's problems began in December 2008, when the Alexander Dawson Foundation sued Bloom and his firm,
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Casualties of Waugh - American Conservative Magazine
American Conservative Magazine, VA - May 25, 2009
Casualties of WaughHe polished off Stephen Spender—who by virtue of dilettante Marxism and homosexual cruising had acquired a brief, specious reputation for poetic talent—in a single deadly clause: “to see him fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience
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Books of The Times An American Writer, Coming of Age in Oxford - New York Times
New York Times, United States - May 13, 2009
New York TimesBooks of The Times An American Writer, Coming of Age in OxfordBy DWIGHT GARNER There'sa nice, small moment in Reynolds Price's new memoir, “Ardent Spirits,” in which he describes a meal he shared in 1957 with the English writers Stephen Spender and Cyril Connolly and the American academic Lionel Trilling.
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