Sir Stephen Spender: 3 books
by Sir Stephen Spender
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Private faces in public places
Are wiser and nicer
Than public faces in private places.
W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932
Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his death in 1995. In choosing from these...
by Sir Stephen Spender
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Stephen Spender, the son of a journalist, was born in London in 1909. He was educated at University College, Oxford, where he met, among others, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and Louis MacNeice, with whom he was to develop a poetics of engagement, writing powerfully of the confusion and alarm...
William Goyen
Selected Letters from a Writer’s Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Proclaimed "one of the great American writers of short fiction" by the New York Times Book Review, William Goyen (1915-1983) had a quintessentially American literary career, in which national recognition came only after years of struggle to find his authentic voice, his audience, and an artistic milieu...