Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender by David Levine

From the Review

September 21, 1995: The Mythical Life and Love of D.H. Lawrence* (poem)

April 12, 1990: Help Salman Rushdie! (letter)

December 18, 1986: On Fame and the Writer*

December 5, 1985: Survivor*

The Assault by Harry Mulisch, translated by Claire Nicolas White

November 8, 1984: B. B. and Company*

Mary Berenson: A Self-Portrait from Her Letters and Diaries edited by Barbara Strachey, edited by Jayne Samuels

May 10, 1984: Forster's Shadow*

Selected Letters of E.M. Forster Vol. I: 1879–1920 edited by Mary Lago, edited by P.N. Furbank

November 10, 1983: 'The First Man on Earth'*

Kleist: A Biography by Joachim Maass, translated by Ralph Manheim

June 30, 1983: Victims of Politics*

1934 by Alberto Moravia, translated by William Weaver

March 17, 1983: Bleeding Poetry*

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell, with an introduction by Robert Hass

July 15, 1982: Changeling*

Continuous: 50 Sonnets from "The School of Eloquence" by Tony Harrison

March 18, 1982: Guilty Secrets*

The Royal Game and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig, translated by Jill Sutcliffe, with an introduction by John Fowles

August 13, 1981: The Glow of Irreality*

Sounds by Wassily Kandinsky, translated by Elizabeth R. Napier

"Kandinsky: The Improvisations" 1981 The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. April 26-September 7,

June 11, 1981: Elbe Swans and Other Poets*

The Meeting at Telgte by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim

August 14, 1980: Issyvoo's Conversion*

My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood

October 11, 1979: Meat Loaf*

What's for Dinner? by James Schuyler

April 5, 1979: The Weimar Wind Tunnel*

Art and Politics in the Weimar Period: The New Sobriety, 1917-1933 by John Willett

Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre: 15. Europäische Kunstausstellung, Berlin 1977 Akademie der Künste, and the Grosse Orangerie at the Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin, August 14-October 16, 1977 Catalogue of the exhibitions at the Neue Nationalgalerie, the

Paris/Berlin: Rapports et contrastes france-allemagne, 1900-1933 12-November 6, 1978 Catalogue of the exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, July

December 21, 1978: Heaven Can't Wait*

Mirabell: Books of Number by James Merrill

June 15, 1978: Hardy Hardy*

Thomas Hardy After Fifty Years edited by Lance St John Butler

Thomas Hardy's Later Years by Robert Gittings

Young Thomas Hardy by Robert Gittings

An Essay on Hardy by John Bayley

The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy: Volume I, 1840-1892 edited by Richard Little Purdy, edited by Michael Millgate

Thomas Hardy and the British Tradition by Donald Davie

The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy edited by James Gibson

January 26, 1978: The Mythical Life of D.H. Lawrence* (poem)

January 26, 1978: Traveling Light*

A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

April 28, 1977: Melancholic and Magic History*

History: A Novel by Elsa Morante, translated by William Weaver

November 25, 1976: Support for the Polish Workers (letter)

September 16, 1976: The Cult of Joe*

The Letters of J.R. Ackerley edited by Neville Braybrooke

The Secret Orchard of Roger Ackerley by Diana Petre

June 24, 1976: Two Poems* (poem)

March 6, 1975: Among the Israelis*

December 12, 1974: Auden at Milwaukee* (poem)

September 19, 1974: In Eliot's Cave*

Golden Codgers by Richard Ellmann

Eliot in His Time edited by A. Walton Litz

Eliot in Perspective edited by Graham Martin

The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot by William M. Chace

Great Tom: Notes Towards the Definition of T.S. Eliot by T.S. Matthews

November 29, 1973: W. H. Auden (1907–1973)*

September 20, 1973: Can Poetry Be Reviewed?*

Moly and My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn

Writings to An Unfinished Accompaniment by W.S. Merwin

Braving the Elements by James Merrill

Wintering Out by Seamus Heaney

The Crystal Lithium by James Schuyler

They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine

A Change of Hearts by Kenneth Koch

April 19, 1973: Cultural Barbarians? (letter)

March 22, 1973: Private Eye*

Homage to Daniel Shays: Collected Essays, 1952-1972 by Gore Vidal

February 8, 1973: Poetry of the Unspeakable*

Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans edited by Larry Rottmann, edited by Jan Barry, edited by Basil T. Paquet

Obscenities by Michael Casey

January 25, 1973: Ford's Better Idea (letter)

November 16, 1972: The Truth about Orwell*

The Unknown Orwell by Peter Stansky, by William Abrahams

George Orwell by Raymond Williams

The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

September 21, 1972: In the Cupboard (letter)

June 15, 1972: Cavafy: The Historic and Erotic*

Passions and Ancient Days by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Edward Keeley, translated by George Savidis

June 1, 1972: The Poetry of Montale*

Provisional Conclusions by Eugenio Montale, translated by Edith Farnsworth

Xenia by Eugenio Montale, translated by G. Singh

The Butterfly of Dinard by Eugenio Montale, translated by G. Singh

May 18, 1972: Late Stravinsky Listening to Late Beethoven* (poem)

December 16, 1971: George Seferis (letter)

November 18, 1971: Two Poems* (poem)

November 4, 1971: In Defense of James Wright

August 12, 1971: No Utilitarian (letter)

July 22, 1971: The Last Ditch*

Crow by Ted Hughes

No Jerusalem But This by Samuel Menashe

Briefings: Poems Small and Easy by A.R. Ammons

Uplands: New Poems by A.R. Ammons

Collected Poems by James Wright

May 6, 1971: The Inner Mann*

Letters by Thomas Mann, selected and translated by Richard Winston, by Clara Winston

March 25, 1971: The Conscience of the Huxleys*

The Huxleys by Ronald W. Clark

Memories by Julian Huxley

Letters of Aldous Huxley edited by Grover Smith

This Timeless Moment by Laura Archera Huxley

July 23, 1970: E. M.Forster (1879–1970)*

April 23, 1970: The Perfectly Candid Man*

Sowing: An Autobiography of the Years 1880-1904 by Leonard Woolf

Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 by Leonard Woolf

Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911-1918 by Leonard Woolf

Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 by Leonard Woolf

The Journey Not the Arrival Matters by Leonard Woolf

September 25, 1969: Writers and Revolutionaries: The Spanish War*

The Last Great Cause by Stanley Weintraub

Today the Struggle by Katharine Bail Hoskins

Between the Bullet and the Lie by Carl Eby

The Fifth Column and four unpublished stories of the Spanish Civil War by Ernest Hemingway

April 24, 1969: Man of Distinction*

Democracy and the Student Left by George Kennan

September 12, 1968: The Young in Berlin*

August 22, 1968: The Young in Prague*

July 11, 1968: Paris in the Spring*

December 21, 1967: Sorry (letter)

November 23, 1967: Randall Jarrell's Complaint*

Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 edited by Robert Lowell, edited by Peter Taylor, edited by Robert Penn Warren

April 20, 1967: Bagatelles* (poem)

October 8, 1964: Earth-Treading Stars That Make Dark Heaven Light* (poem)

June 11, 1964: The Last Years of a Poet*

Rilke: The Years in Switzerland by J.R. von Salis

June 1, 1963: Death in Jerusalem*

Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

Books by Stephen Spender

Dolphins (1994)
The Temple (1988)
In Irina's Garden with Henry Moore's Sculpture (1986)
Journals 1939-1983 (1985)
Collected Poems, 1928-1985 (1985)
The Oedipus Trilogy (1985)
China Diary (1982)
Letters to Christopher: Stephen Spender's Letters to Christopher Isherwood, 1929-1939 (1980)
The Thirties and After: Poetry, Politics, People 1933-1970 (1978)
T. S. Eliot (1976)
Love-hate Relations; English and American sensibilities (1974)
Poetry Since 1939 (1974)
D. H. Lawrence: Novelist, Poet, Prophet (1973)
The Generous Days (1971)
The Year of the Young Rebels (1969)
Engaged in Writing: Two Novels (1958)
Great Writings of Goethe (1958)
The Making of a Poem (1955)
Creative Element: A Study of Vision, Despair, and Orthodoxy among Some Modern Writers (1953)
Learning Laughter (1952)
World Within World (1951)
A Choice of English Romantic Poetry (1947)
European Witness (1946)
Life and the Poet (1942)
Selected Poems (1940)
New Realism: A Discussion (1939)
Forward from Liberalism (1937)
The Burning Cactus (1936)
Destructive Element: A Study of Modern Writers and Beliefs (1935)