Eliot (Fontana Modern masters)

Literature & Fiction

SPENDER, Stephen

History & Criticism

Fontana

Thirties and After Poetry Politics People

Fontana/ Collin

Eliot (Fontana Modern Masters)

HarperCollins, Publishers

A collection of poems that originally appeared in the New York Times (when it published poetry). Contributors include Wendell Barry, Padraic Colum, James Dickey, Robert Graves, Langston Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Walter de la Mare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Howard Nemerov, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Schwartz, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, and May Swenson.

The New York Times Book of Verse

Macmillan

Harper &amp; Row,NY,1973, 1st US edition, many authors VG in DJ

D. H. Lawrence: novelist, poet, prophet

Harper&Row

The Temple

Literary

Harpercollins

Studies Eliot's entire career and oeuvre, examining all aspects of his criticism and analyzing and evaluating the poems and plays

T. S. Eliot (Penguin modern masters)

Penguin??Books

Written in the immediate aftermath of World War II and first published in 1947, this book is an eyewitness account of the Blitz by one of the leading writers of the day who served during the war in the Auxiliary Fire Service. William Sansom, perhaps best known for his book of short stories about wartime London, "Fireman Flower and Other Stories", here recreates the experience of civilians in Westminster throughout the war from the time of the "phoney war", through the Blitz, the Lull and the Little Blitz, to the final phase of the flying bombs. The area of Westminster could not be more socially diverse and one of the chief themes of the book is the spirit of solidarity that eventually developed between those living in different areas. Both famous and infamous London are a part of this story of endurance. Sansom recreates the feeling of impotence that civilians felt at not being able to fight back, and he records the shrugging off of peacetime responsibilities and the jaunty attitudes that existed, paradoxically, at times of the worst bombing. Tragic though the continual destruction was, Sansom also discovered humans thriving in the most unlikely situations.

The Blitz: Westminster at War

History

SANSOM, WILLIAM

Europe

Oxford University Press

A central figure in the political and cultural life of our time for over fifty years, Sir Stephen Spender has witnessed and participated in some of this century's most significant events and has known many of its most interesting and gifted individuals. Having kept journals intermittently for most of this time, Spender has recorded his vivid observations and reflections on the scenes he has witnessed, portrayed his friends and acquaintances--including W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Igor Stravinsky, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, and many others--and set down his ideas, hopes, aims, and regrets. This first paperback edition of Stephen Spender's journals makes for constantly entertaining and illuminating reading. One comes away from this fascinating inside look at one man's extraordinary life full of admiration for his vitality, his enduring interest in others, and his remarkable honesty about himself.

Journals 1939-1983

Goldsmith, John

Collected poems, 1928-1985

The Collected Poems of Stephen Spender gathers together the renowned poet's major work for the first time in over thirty years. It contains recent uncollected poems, including remembrances of Auden, Stravinsky, and Louis MacNiece, as well as previously uncollected earlier poems based on Rilke, Lorca, and Altoguirre, and choruses from Sir Stephen's version of Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy. Sir Stephen has also made considerable changes in the texts of his earlier work, eliminating some poems and significantly revising many others. In the introduction he writes: "In reworking poems I have always done so with the sense that in writing a poem I have certain intentions which I very rarely forget. If I take up a notebook and find in it a sketch for a poem which I made many years ago I can remember exactly what I was setting out to do, and I sometimes find that I can continue it as though I had written the sketch yesterday." A poet of engagement, both political and emotional, Stephen Spender has witnessed and vividly described the traumas and trials of his age. This definitive collection stands as his essential testimony.

Collected Poems, 1928-1985

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