Spender, Stephen.

World Within World – The Autobiography of Stephen Spender.

London / Hertfordshire, Readers Union Ltd., 1953. 20.9cm x 13cm. XI, 305 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. As usual with some browning to the paper.

Includes for Example: Love, poetry, politics, the life of literature, childhood, travel/ The development of certain attitudes towards moral problems/ Background of events from 1928 – 1939.

Stephen Spender’s poetry includes: “Vienna”, “Poems of Dedication”, “Trial of a Judge”, and “Ruins and Visions”. His prose includes: “Forward from Liberalism”, “The Burning Cactus”, “Learning Laughter”, “The Backward Son” and “Amateurs of Love”/ Spender concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work/ He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965.

• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 40384AB

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