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"Nine years after Stephen Spender's death, John Sutherland offers the authorized life of this brilliant but famously enigmatic man." "Sutherland's account ranges from the depiction of Spender's cosmopolitan family (and the dominant influence of this archetypal Victorian father), via Oxford, to the breakaway years in 1930s Weimar Germany, where his comrades in liberated exile were W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. We follow him through the war as Britain's most famous fireman to the postwar years of international celebrity - a celebrity which provoked some animosity; Spender's reputation…
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5 editions- Other · English · 2005Oxford University Press, Incorporated · 9780195346381
- Other · English · 2005Penguin Books Ltd · 640 pages · 9780140278897
- Other · English · 2004Oxford University Press · 9781280428395
- Other · English · 2004Oxford University Press, USA · 640 pages · 9780195178166
- Other · English · 2004Viking · 627 pages · 9780670883035
BiographyCriticsEnglish PoetsPoets, EnglishSpender, stephen, 1909-1995Poets, biographyBiographiesPoètes anglais
