Word: spender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give it to reactionary Anglophile classicists, if you know any. . . . Mark Van Doren's "Collected Poems, 1922-1938" give a good picture of a sensitive and rather mystical mind. Mr. Van Doren's "Shakespeare" cannot be too highly recommended. An entirely fresh and illuminating critical appraisal. . . . Stephen Spender and J. L. Gilli have translated some poems of the young Spanish poet. F. Gareia Lorea, who was killed early in the Spanish war. This is not, unfortunately, the first example of a considerable talent to meet an unfitting and untimely death. . . . Another translation, this time of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino...
...Stephen Spender, most lyrical of left-wing poets, the Soviet-German pact seemed to "make nonsense of most of the left-wing writing of the past ten years." He saw the war as "the most extraordinary confusion, in which each side is fighting to produce chaos in the other before it has lost control of itself. ... As I haven't been told to do anything, I can devote myself to writing, perhaps my posthumous works...
...Editor Squire (knighted the year before) retired to live the life of a squire in fact. New literary blood was brought into the magazine in the form of contributions by Auden, Spender, et al. By January 1938, when the price was doubled from 1 s. to 2 s., circulation had climbed to 6,000. Readers of the current (April) issue read a stiff-upper-lip editorial announcing that it would be the last. The London Mercury was broke. Reason: A catastrophic slump in subscribers and advertisers due to "political and economic tempests of the last year...
Soon Hines became known as a big spender, a heavy bettor at racetracks. His family lived in style. Yet his reported income was modest, its sources vague. He filed no tax returns for the period 1929-35 until the Government cracked down. Then the following items were revealed: $3,300 a year for "services" to the Sun & Surf Club at Atlantic Beach, L. I.; $2,400 to $6,550 a year for "services" to the New Hampshire Breeders (Rockingham Park racetrack company); $4,000 to $5,000 a year from Kenway Construction Co. for "services...
Though Eliot himself earned the label of No. 1 tenant of the contemporary Ivory Tower, The Criterion also published the first poems of W. H. Auden. Stephen Spender, many another young radical. A Tory in politics,, an Anglo-Catholic in religion, Eliot held to his own beliefs in criticism. As an editor he acknowledged the talent, scholarship and imagination of writers whose social and political beliefs he sharply opposed...