The English poet Stephen Spender (1909–1995), once better known for his poems engaged with social injustice and class struggle in the 1930s, is now remembered primarily as an anti-communist cultural agent during the Cold War, and for his commitment to a literary magazine Encounter (1953–...
Sir Stephen Harold Spender was born in London and educated at University College School, London, and University College, Oxford, where he met W. H. Auden. He held left-wing views during the 1930s and worked on Republican propaganda during the Spanish Civil War; he was in the National Fire...
Spender also co-edited Horizon (1939-41) with Cyril Connolly and later edited Encounter (1953-66).After the war, Spender joined Unesco as a globe-trotting cultural emissary. He also worked for the Congress for Cultural Freedom, for International PEN, and the British Council.Books by Spender i...
Zusammenfassung Studium in London und Oxford; literarisch beeinflusst durch W. H.Auden; Teilnahme am Spanischen Bürgerkrieg auf republikanischer Seite; editorische Tätigkeit (1939–1941Horizon,1953–1967Encounter); Lehrtätigkeit in London (1970–1977); 1962 Commander of The British Empire,...
Sir Stephen Spender was an English poet and critic, who made his reputation in the 1930s with poems expressing the politically conscience-stricken, leftist “new writing” of that period. A nephew of the Liberal journalist and biographer J.A. Spender, he