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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...
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). □
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—...
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.
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...
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...substantial reductions in federal spending, a move that helped trigger the "Roosevelt recession" of the late 1930s. Wartime Spender Morgenthau was an early and vigorous champion of collective security arrangements to resist the growing aggressiveness of Nazi...
lyric
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...cent. are W. B. Yeats, A. E. Housman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico García Lorca, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wallace Stevens, Elinor Wylie, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Lowell. Bibliography: See J. M...

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...
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...
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...
cloud seeding
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences ...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.
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...
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...

Thesaurus entries related to "Spender,"

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...
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...

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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...
STEPHEN SPENDER: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/8/2004; ; 700+ words ; A shrewd goose STEPHEN SPENDER: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY by John Sutherland...at once cause the reader to pause. Spender once wrote, 'I think continually of...the Depression'. But since, like Spender himself, Rupert Brooke has been cruelly...
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: 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: 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...
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...
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 ; Not averse to charm STEPHEN SPENDER lived two lives. In one, he was a...in the world. But there was another Spender too. This one was a critic, a prolific...ambassador for poetry. This second Spender was involved in the foundation of UNESCO...
"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...
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...
"Your thoughts make shape like snow": Louis MacNeice on Stephen Spender.
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Campbell's amalgamation of MacNeice, Spender, Auden, and Day-Lewis into a single careerist...between men like Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender. (1) This essay focuses on MacNeice and Spender during the early 1930s to explore two related...