Stephen Spender, (1909–1995) a writer known for his ardent idealism, came of age during the 1930s, witness to the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. His prodigious body of work includes nineteen poetry collections, criticism, travel books, essays, and the memoir World Within World (1951), remembered for its revealing sketches of W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. Spender was knighted in 1983.
Photography by Humphrey Spender, courtesy of Rachel Spender.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- On Fame and the Writer, an essay, in Fall 2015