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Sir Stephen Spender
Sir Stephen Spender 1909-95, English poet and critic, b. London. His early poetry—like that of W. H. Auden , C. Day Lewis , and Louis MacNeice , with whom he became associated at Oxford—was inspired by social protest. His autobiography, World within World (1951), is a re-creation o... Read more
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly , 1903-74, English critic and editor, b. Coventry, England. After attending the Univ. of Oxford, he began his career as a journalist. With Stephen Spender he founded Horizon (1939-49), a small literary magazine that reflected Connolly's own iconoclastic and mordant attitudes towar... Read more
William Proxmire
William Proxmire (Edward William Proxmire), 1915-2005, U.S. senator (1957-89), b. Lake Forest, Ill. He worked in army counterintelligence during World War II and later entered politics, serving (1951-52) as a Democrat in the Wisconsin state assembly. After three unsuccessful attempts at the governo... Read more
Arshile Gorky
Arshile Gorky , c.1900-48, American painter, b. Armenia as Vosdanig Adoian. He escaped the Turkish slaughter of Armenians, emigrated to the United States in 1920, studied at Boston's New School of Design, and moved to New York City in 1925. An extraordinarily fluid draftsman inspired by Ingres , P... Read more
lyric
lyric in ancient Greece, a poem accompanied by a musical instrument, usually a lyre. Although the word is still often used to refer to the songlike quality in poetry, it is more generally used to refer to any short poem that expresses a personal emotion, be it a sonnet, ode, song, or elegy. In earl... Read more
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden) , 1907-73, Anglo-American poet, b. York, England, educated at Oxford. A versatile, vigorous, and technically skilled poet, Auden ranks among the major literary figures of the 20th cent. Often written in everyday language, his poetry ranges in subject matter from pol... Read more
D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence), 1885-1930, English author, one of the primary shapers of 20th-century fiction. Life The son of a Nottingham coal miner, Lawrence was a sickly child, devoted to his refined but domineering mother, who insisted upon his education. He graduated from t... Read more
Herbert Henry Asquith Oxford and Asquith, 1st earl of
Herbert Henry Asquith Oxford and Asquith, 1st earl of 1852-1928, British statesman. Of a middle-class family, he attended Oxford, became a barrister in London in 1876, and was elected to Parliament as a Liberal in 1886. He attracted attention as junior counsel for Charles Parnell before the Parne... Read more
feminism
feminism movement for the political, social, and educational equality of women with men; the movement has occurred mainly in Europe and the United States. It has its roots in the humanism of the 18th cent. and in the Industrial Revolution. Feminist issues range from access to employment, education,... Read more
Friedrich von Schiller
Friedrich von Schiller 1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, and historian, one of the greatest of German literary figures, b. Marbach, Württemberg. The poets of German romanticism were strongly influenced by Schiller, and he ranks as one of the founders of modern German literature, second only t... Read more

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Stephen Harold Spender
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Stephen Harold Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender (1909-1995), poet, critic, translator, travel writer...prominence as a poet of social protest in the 1930s. Stephen Spender was born February 28, 1909, the son of well-to-do...
Spender, Sir Stephen Harold
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Spender, Sir Stephen Harold (1909–95) English poet. Spender was a member of the Auden circle in the 1930s, and his autobiography...His Collected Poems 1928–1985 appeared in 1985. Spender was knighted in 1983.
Sir Stephen Spender
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sir Stephen Spender 1909-95, English poet and critic, b. London. His early poetry...Horizon with Cyril Connolly (1939-41) and Encounter (1953-66). Spender was knighted in 1983. Bibliography: See his Journals, 1939-83...
Cyril Connolly
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...ambition which was also apparent to Stephen Spender, the poet, who was also a friend of...gift for parody, a gift which prompted Spender to term him "the spectator of his own...Orwell thought wrong with England." To Spender The Unquiet Grave, which was first issued...
Pylon school
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...wing poets of the 1930s, chiefly Auden , Day-Lewis , MacNeice , and Spender , alluding to the rather self-conscious use of industrial imagery in their work. Spender's poem ‘The Pylons’ was published in 1933.
Bob Fosse
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Sweet Charity, with its trademark jazzy number, "Hey Big Spender," and Cabaret. Bob Fosse began his unusual career as a dancer...The "Steam Heat" number from The Pajama Game and "Hey Big Spender" from Sweet Charity were trademark Fosse numbers —...
Wystan Hugh Auden
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...undergraduates were Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender, who, with Auden, formed the collective variously labeled...small volume of his poems was privately printed by Stephen Spender in 1928, while Auden was still an undergraduate. Poems was...
Cecil Day Lewis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...During the 1930s he was a friend of W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender, sharing their leftist political views. Lewis had written...1963). See also Derek Stanford, Pylon Poets: MacNeice, Spender, Day-Lewis (1969). □
Group Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes (both 1935); the poetic plays of W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood; and Stephen Spender's Trial of a Judge (1938). Most of the plays were directed by Rupert Doone (1904–66) on a bare stage with...
POETRY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language ...vivid sensation’. In the 1930s, the ‘New Country’ poets, such as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Cecil Day Lewis, wanted to write language that was accessible to ordinary people. In the 20c, language has been accepted...

Dictionary entries related to "Spender,"

pylon
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...1930s (chiefly W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender) who used industrial scenes and imagery as themes of their poetry, after Spender's poem The Pylons (1933). The word comes (in the early 19th century...
Auerbach, Frank
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...include portraits (particularly of people he knows well), nudes, townscapes, and the building site. The poet Stephen Spender has characterized the figures in his paintings as ‘people who seem burdened with perhaps terrible experience...
cloud seeding
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology ...where ice crystals from a high ‘releaser’ cloud (e.g. altostratus or cirrostratus ) fall into a supercooled water ‘spender’ cloud (e.g. nimbostratus ) and encourage ice-crystal growth.
Brazil
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Samurai warrior ); Toby Clark (Small Sam double ); Diana Martin (Telegram girl ); Jack Purvis (Dr. Chapman ); Elizabeth Spender (Alison/"Barbara" Lint ); Antony Brown (Porter, Information Retrieval ); Myrtle Devenish (Typist, Jack's office...
Budget, Federal
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...in a society that extols the virtue of free enterprise, the federal government is still the largest borrower, the largest spender, and the largest income receiver in the economy. Key Terms and Concepts Authorization, appropriation, and outlays. Before...
Tucson
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...enthusiasts enjoy mountain climbing and desert trekking, wealthy tourists visit expensive resorts and art galleries, while modest spenders patronize the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Old Tucson, a movie site for more than two hundred films. All visitors can...
Dress
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...significantly that women were highly responsible managers of "daily household consumption" (1993, p. 274) and far from frivolous spenders. In 1998, Christopher Breward usefully outlined dress research developed from cultural and media studies. He noted a new...
Barrymore, Ethel
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Reicher); An American Widow (Reicher) 1918 Our Mrs. McChesney (Ralph Ince); The Divorcee (Blaché) 1919 The Spender (Swickard) 1932 Rasputin and the Empress (Rasputin—The Mad Monk ) (Boleslawski) (as Empress Alexandra) 1944...
Terry-Thomas
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Rynde); The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (Levin and Pal) (as Ludwig) 1963 The Mouse on the Moon (Lester) (as Spender); It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Kramer) (as J. Algernon Hawthorne); The Wild Affair (Krish) (as Godfrey...
Geddes Axe
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...figure was around £6 million, but it still suffered, especially through the cutting of continuation schools. However, the Axe was aimed mainly at the armed services, whom Geddes had successfully portrayed as profligate spenders.

Thesaurus entries related to "Spender,"

wastrel
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...x2022; noun   1. a wastrel going through a fortune synonyms : waster, spendthrift, prodigal, squanderer, big spender.   2. he is a complete wastrel synonyms : good-for-nothing, layabout, ne'er-do-well, idler, drone...
spendthrift
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...spendthrift • noun  he is such a spendthrift synonyms : profligate, prodigal, squanderer, waster; informal big spender. antonym: miser. • adjective  his spendthrift father synonyms : profligate, improvident, thriftless...

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Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography. By JOHN SUTHERLAND...ISBN 0-670-88303-4. Writing to Spender in April 1942, Auden suggested: 'I...comes to mind. One of its leitmotifs is Spender's uncomprehending response to critical...
Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; David Leeming, Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism. New York...is the ideal biographer of Stephen Spender, whom he first encountered in 1969...at the University of Connecticut and Spender a visiting professor. Even when Spender...
Stephen Spender: Sir Stephen Harold Spender, British poet, novelist, playwright and critic, died on July 16th at the age of 86.(July 16, 1995)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/22/1995; 700+ words ; IN 1933, when Stephen Spender was 24, he wrote the poem that came...with his one remembered poem, Stephen Spender has done better in a bid for immortality...Cecil Day- Lewis, close friends of Spender, and themselves once famous poets...
STEPHEN SPENDER: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/8/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...is the enduring happiness of Spender's marriage to his beautiful...Interestingly, the great love of Spender's youth - the charming, totally...Cyril Connolly identified two Spenders. Spender 1 was 'an inspired simpleton...
SPENDER AMONG THE MODERNISTS.(Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism. David Leeming...he had only the reluctant permission of Spender to write a 'literary biography', his...the American academic view of himself. Spender had reacted furiously to a previous biography...
Big spenders pip savers as consumer confidence soars; Australia is now home to record numbers of big spenders and baby boomers are leading the splurge, according to a comprehensive new stocktake of the nation's spending habits by Virgin Money.(News)
Magazine article from: Australian Banking & Finance; 9/21/2004; 700+ words ; ...of the Virgin Money Spenders Report include...moving into the Big Spender group in the past...overall growth in spenders took place in the...official home of the Big Spender, claiming more Big Spenders per capita than any...
"Cocksparrow diplomacy": Percy Spender, the Colombo Plan and Commonwealth relations.
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...written on this topic. So too has Percy Spender, the onetime Australian foreign minister...is the subject of this article. (2) Spender represented Australia at the Commonwealth...3) In the light of this consensus, Spender, along with Junius R. Jayewardene...
obituaries: Sir Stephen Spender
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/18/1995; ; 700+ words ; The commanding figure of Sir Stephen Spender, leaning like a tall crane above a city...Throughout his long and varied career, Spender was the symbol of youthful promise in...competitors. The negative catchwords about Spender were really tributes to him: "the Rupert...
Society's dead poet; Stephen Spender, as a major new biography shows, will be best remembered for his public and social life rather than for any of his published poems.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 4/26/2004; 700+ words ; ...choosing. Such a one is the late Sir Stephen Spender. If you consult, say, the excellent...find that, five years after his death, Spender does not figure. He doesn't make the cut. Yet Spender will not be wholly forgotten. He will...
A dinner-party poet; Stephen Spender.(Stephen Spender, poet and socialite)(Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography)(Stephen Spender: New Collected Poems)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/19/2004; 700+ words ; ...world. But there was another Spender too. This one was a critic...ambassador for poetry. This second Spender was involved in the foundation...to be published--the two Spenders were somewhat at odds with each other. The instincts of Spender the poet were not the same...