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Stephen Spender

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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.


— Stephen Spender


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Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.


— Stephen Spender


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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.


— Stephen Spender


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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.


— Stephen Spender


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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.


— Stephen Spender


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Did you know about Stephen Spender?

Spender's second wife Natasha whom he married in 1941 was also Jewish. Spender was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) at the 1962 Queen's Birthday Honours and knighted in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet novelist and essayist who 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.

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