Search results for “Stephen Spender”

Product Description Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he ...

Stephen Spender, along with his friends W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis, rose to prominence in the 1930s, writing powerfully of the fe...

About the Author Stephen Spender was born in 1909 and was educated at University College, Oxford, where his friends included W. H. Auden, C. Day L...

A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action. An authentic modern masterpiece (New York...

Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse o...

Review To live now and not to know this work is to be a kind of historical fool missing a crucial part of the consciousness of the age -- W.L. Web...

A Times Best Art Book of 2022 Reproductions of the young Lucian Freud’s letters alongside insightful context and commentary reveal the foundations...

The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Si...

About the Author Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Dart, her second collection, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. H...

About the Author David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent. In 1915, then an art student, he went to war with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, where he f...