Spender enjoys reading his poems before American audiences, which he says "are interested" and "pleased or surprised if you don't appear on the stage drunk." Spender's poetry was first published ...

James Fenton started out looking like the W.H. Auden of his generation; now, with the publication of his “Selected Poems” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 196 pages, $14), it seems clear that he is really ...

In my column of Sunday, 17th March, about Dr. Jagan I quoted some lines of a poem whose title I could not remember which came to mind when my wife and I first heard he had died. The lines are from ...

The vaguely preposterous Stephen Spender spent a great deal more of his life "being a poet" than he ever did writing poetry. And yet beneath the surface he had a pith of seriousness and principle ...

STEPHEN SPENDER lived two lives. In one, he was a member of a generation of poets who helped to re-define the shape of English verse. Other members of the group included C. Day Lewis, Louis ...

The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation is open for entries to all, with sections for young people, the challenge: to translate a poem from any language, classical or modern, into ...

Over a 65-year career, Stephen Spender wrote scores of poems, hundreds of reviews and essays, and arguably one of the finer memoirs of the 20 th century. And yet he may end up better remembered ...

The reaction to Stephen Spender at Gemini Studios was no longer a mystery. The Boss of Gemini Studios may not have much to do with Spender’s poetry. But not at all with his god that failed.

Stephen Spender was once dutifully included in all the anthologies of “modern verse”. Now, if he is remembered at all as a poet, it is – in one of Fame’s colder ironies – for the line ...