New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender - Rilegato

Spender, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 057122279X ISBN 13: 9780571222797

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2004

Riassunto

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 fear and paranoia of a continent heading towards war. By the time of his death in 1995 he had established a distinguished reputation as a poet, critic, editor and translator. This New Collected Poems, edited by Michael Brett, gathers seven decades of verse from Poems (1933) to Dolphins (1994) and the late uncollected work. Reordering the thematic principle of the 1985 Collected Poems, this edition returns to a book-by-book chronology and allows the reader to experience, for the first time, the full development and range of his career.

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L'autore

Stephen Spender was born in 1909 and was educated at University College, Oxford, where his friends included W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber & Faber in 1933. He went to Spain during the Civil War and worked as a Republican propagandist. With Cyril Connolly he founded Horizon in London in 1939, and co-edited it until he joined the National Fire Service in 1942. He founded Encounter with Irving Kristol in 1953 and was co-editor of the magazine until 1965. He spent much time in the USA where he was Visiting Professor at several universities. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1971, and was knighted in 1983. His oeuvre includes numerous volumes of poems concluding with Dolphins in 1994, plays, translations, novels, short stories, essays on art and literature, criticism, and journals. He died in London in 1995.

Product Description

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Association copy, inscribed by Natasha Spender to Jill Balcon, Cecil Day Lewis's second wife.393 pages; Physical desc. : xxi, 393 p. ; 23 cm. Subject: Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995. English poetry - 20th century.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 057122279X
• ISBN 13: 9780571222797
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile