World Within World (Advanced Uncorrected Proof)

Spender, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0312113587 / ISBN 13: 9780312113582

Published by St Martins Press, Cambridge, 1994

About this Item

8vo., Wraps 349pp. Beautiful Unread Advanced Uncorrected Proof. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, tears or toning. A sharp collectable copy at a great price.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: World Within World (Advanced Uncorrected Proof)
• Publisher: St Martins Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312113587
• ISBN 13: 9780312113582
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

Stephen Spender's autobiography is acknowledged to be one of the most illuminating literary works that have emerged to chronicle the period between the two world wars. In writing it, Stephen Spender was concerned, as he states, with a few recurrent themes: "love, poetry, politics, the life of literature, childhood, travel, and the development of certain attitudes towards moral problems." In the course of the book there are memorable portraits of Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Lady Ottoline Morrell, W. H. Auden, and Christopher Isherwood, among many others.

About the Author

Stephen Spender was born in 1909 and was educated at University College, Oxford, where his friends included W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber in 1933. He went to Spain during the Civil War and worked as a Republican propagandist. With Cyril Connolly he founded Horizon in London in 1939, and co-edited it until he joined the National Fire Service in 1942. He founded Encounter with Irving Kristol in 1953 and was co-editor of the magazine until 1965. He spent much time in the USA where he was Visiting Professor at several universities. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1971, and was knighted in 1983. His oeuvre includes numerous volumes of poems concluding with Dolphins in 1994, plays, translations, novels, short stories, essays on art and literature, criticism, and journals. He died in London in 1995.