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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  • Sir Stephen Harold Spender, CBE, war ein englischer Dichter, Autor und Hochschullehrer, der sich in seinen Werken auf soziale Ungerechtigkeiten und den Klassenkampf konzentrierte.
  • Sir Stephen Harold Spender est un poète, romancier et essayiste britannique fortement engagé dans l'action pour la justice sociale et connu pour ses idées sur la lutte des classes.
  • Condivise per un certo periodo le posizioni ideologiche e culturali di Auden e di Day Lewis; durante la guerra civile si recò in Spagna ove lavorò a favore della causa repubblicana. Con la raccolta Poems (Poesie; del 1933) acquistò una posizione di primo piano nel panorama della poesia inglese contemporanea e nella corrente di rinnovamento del linguaggio poetico fiorita nel decennio 1930-1940. Dalla iniziale tematica politica e sociale, cui si mescolavano motivi di individualismo anarchico, Spender si è poi rivolto verso temi di più intima riflessione che trovano riscontro in toni di pacata meditazione. Ha diretto la rivista Encounter (Incontro) dal 1953 al 1967.
  • Sir Stephen Harold Spender was een Engels dichter, romanschrijver en essayist. Hij maakte in de jaren dertig van de twintigste eeuw deel uit van een groep jonge dichters rond W.H. Auden. Daartoe behoorden ook o.a. Christopher Isherwood, Cecil Day-Lewis en Louis MacNeice.
  • Stephen Spender var en engelsk poet som skrev hovedsakelig poesi og prosa. Diktene hans var ofte preget av hans følelser for andre mennesker. Han jobbet også som redaktør i en avis fra 1953 til 1967, og var professor i engelsk litteratur og språk på 1970-tallet.
  • Stephen Harold Spender foi um poeta, romancista e ensaista inglês que se debruçou sobre os temas da injustiça social e da luta de classes.
  • Stephen Harold Spender, född 28 februari 1909 i London, död 16 juli 1995, var en engelsk poet, romanförfattare och essäist som skrev framför allt om klasskamp och sociala orättvisor. Han hörde till kretsen kring W. H. Auden. Han fick 1962 utmärkelsen Order of the British Empire.
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  • Sir Stephen Harold Spender, CBE, war ein englischer Dichter, Autor und Hochschullehrer, der sich in seinen Werken auf soziale Ungerechtigkeiten und den Klassenkampf konzentrierte.
  • Sir Stephen Harold Spender est un poète, romancier et essayiste britannique fortement engagé dans l'action pour la justice sociale et connu pour ses idées sur la lutte des classes.
  • Condivise per un certo periodo le posizioni ideologiche e culturali di Auden e di Day Lewis; durante la guerra civile si recò in Spagna ove lavorò a favore della causa repubblicana. Con la raccolta Poems (Poesie; del 1933) acquistò una posizione di primo piano nel panorama della poesia inglese contemporanea e nella corrente di rinnovamento del linguaggio poetico fiorita nel decennio 1930-1940.
  • Sir Stephen Harold Spender was een Engels dichter, romanschrijver en essayist. Hij maakte in de jaren dertig van de twintigste eeuw deel uit van een groep jonge dichters rond W.H. Auden. Daartoe behoorden ook o.a. Christopher Isherwood, Cecil Day-Lewis en Louis MacNeice.
  • Stephen Spender var en engelsk poet som skrev hovedsakelig poesi og prosa. Diktene hans var ofte preget av hans følelser for andre mennesker. Han jobbet også som redaktør i en avis fra 1953 til 1967, og var professor i engelsk litteratur og språk på 1970-tallet.
  • Stephen Harold Spender foi um poeta, romancista e ensaista inglês que se debruçou sobre os temas da injustiça social e da luta de classes.
  • Stephen Harold Spender, född 28 februari 1909 i London, död 16 juli 1995, var en engelsk poet, romanförfattare och essäist som skrev framför allt om klasskamp och sociala orättvisor. Han hörde till kretsen kring W. H. Auden. Han fick 1962 utmärkelsen Order of the British Empire.
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