Author: Sutherland, John.
Title: Stephen Spender : a literary life.
Description: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 627 pp. English text. Condition : as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. Originally published: London : Penguin Books, Ltd., 2004. Contents : Ambitious son, failed father : 1909-30 -- The 1930s : Germany : the Tony Hyndman Years : Spain and after -- The 1940s : an Englishman again -- The 1950s : middle years, Mid-Atlantic -- The 1960s : young rebels and old rebel -- The 1970s : grandparent, not yet GOM -- The 1980s : retired, but not resigned -- The 1990s : 'Five years he shouldn't have had'. - The literary, political, and artistic interests of poet and cultural icon Stephen Spender (1909-1995) are illuminated in this narrative based on his private papers, tracing his rise to success as a poet in the 1930s through his later years as cultural statesman of the twentieth century, and examining his relationships with such luminaries as Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot, and Virgina Woolf. ISBN 9780195178166.

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