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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...
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  • pianist Natasha Spender (née Litvin) and the poet, novelist and essayist Stephen Spender. She studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and Drama...
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  • father, the poet Stephen Spender. He also wrote Within Tuscany: Reflections on a Time and Place (1992, Viking, and 1993, Penguin.) Spender was born in London...
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  • Encounter was a literary magazine founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and journalist Irving Kristol. The magazine ceased publication in 1991. Published...
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  • English pianist and author. She was the second wife of the writer Sir Stephen Spender. She was born in London. Her maternal family emigrated to Britain as...
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  • The God that Failed (category Works by Stephen Spender)
    essays by Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright. The common theme of the essays is the authors'...
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  • socialised with a coterie of expatriates that included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward, and Paul Bowles. As a gay man, he also interacted with...
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    1921 and Harold Spender died in 1926. Humphrey had two brothers, the poet Stephen Spender and the scientist and explorer Michael Spender, and one sister...
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  • England. Spender is married to and sometimes collaborates with the film editor Valerio Bonelli. Her father, Matthew Spender, is son of the poet Stephen Spender...
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    met the younger poet Stephen Spender, who printed Auden's first collection, Poems (1928). Upward, Isherwood, Auden, and Spender were identified as the...
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  • 1930s that included W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood and sometimes Edward Upward and Rex Warner....
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    Allegra Spender (born 10 March 1978) is an Australian politician and businesswoman. She is currently the member of parliament for Wentworth, having won...
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  • David Rousset (Georges Altman), Ignazio Silone (Nicola Chiaromonte), Stephen Spender (Tosco Fyvel) and Denis de Rougemont who became President of the committee...
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  • senior figures in literary London, T. S. Eliot, Geoffrey Grigson and Stephen Spender. The following year, in September 1935, Thomas met Vernon Watkins,...
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    caring a curse of what people thought of her." Likewise, acquaintance Stephen Spender recalled that Ross' singing ability was underwhelming and forgettable:...
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    Friends he met at Oxford include Cecil Day-Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender - Auden and these three were commonly though misleadingly identified...
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    leading 20th-century poets as T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex...
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  • cabarets. He socialized with a coterie of gay writers that included Stephen Spender, Paul Bowles, and W.H. Auden. At the time, Isherwood viewed the rise...
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  • similar in theme to "An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum" by Stephen Spender published in his New Collected Poems (1964).[citation needed] A recitation...
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    Encounter, the now defunct literary magazine founded by Irving Kristol and Stephen Spender. Based in New York City since 2006, Encounter Books publishes non-fiction...
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  • libertine nightlife. His expatriate social circle included W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Paul Bowles, and Jean Ross. While in Berlin, Isherwood shared lodgings...
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    will come and she'll have your eyes - The Times Stephen Spender Prize 2013 (commended)". Stephen Spender Trust. Archived from the original on February 3...
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    from 1896 to 1922. Spender was the eldest of four sons born to John Kent Spender, a doctor, and his wife, the novelist Lillian Spender. He was educated...
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  • ISBN 978-1848311640 (with Stephen Fender) Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives, Profile Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1846681578 Stephen Spender: New Selected...
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  • Isabella Frances Romer Tom Sandars Wallis Simpson Dodie Smith Stephen Spender Cat Stevens Stephen Ward H. G. Wells Charles Wesley Norman Wisdom Eliot lived...
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  • his film work, in particular for his performance as Prince Charles, in Stephen Frears' film The Queen (2006) opposite Helen Mirren. His other film appearances...
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    to the Left 1970 Sunday Wilshin in Stephen Wadhams Remembering Orwell Penguin Books 1984 Stephen Spender in Stephen Wadhams Remembering Orwell Penguin...
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    "The Times Stephen Spender Prize 2011". Stephen Spender Trust. 2011. "Summer Selections". PBS Bulletin Summer 2013. Beowulf. Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-. New...
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    of Stephen Spender. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-679-64045-5 – via Google Books. Sutherland, John (2005). Stephen Spender:...
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    the painter Nancy Spender and the explorer Michael Spender, a nephew of the poet Stephen Spender, and a trustee of the Stephen Spender Memorial Trust. He...
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