biography
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Spender, Sir Stephen (Harold)
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| lived:
| (1909–95)
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| biography:
| Poet and critic, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became one of the group of modern poets with Auden and Day-Lewis in the 1930s. His many poetic works include Poems from Spain (1939), Ruins and Visions (1942), and The Generous Days (1971). His Collected Poems, 1928–85 were published in 1985. He was co-editor of Horizon (1939–41) and Encounter (1953–67), co-founder of Index on Censorship in 1971, and professor of English at University College London (1970–7). He was knighted in 1983. |
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