Word: spender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacLeish's visit to Cambridge was solely for the reading, presented by the English Department. Previously this season, the Gray Fund presented Stephen Spender in a similar program...
When the selections are taken as individual units, they flounder-the poetry worst of all. Most of the British poets here anthologized seem cowed by the fashions of up-to-the-minute taste. Either they are still unrecovered from their burns from the Auden-Spender firecracker of the '30s (Marx, Freud, Oxford, pathos and wisecracks), or they have slumped into a pale, desiccated romanticism ("Sleep, my love, now love is over. . . . Tender about you, my arms will cover...
...Stephen Spender, English poet who spent a few days in Cambridge last week, thinks it a good idea for Harvard students to go to Europe. He said that any questioning of American setstandards is "a very good thing...
...Spender observed that he found in America "an inability to grasp the basic problems confronting us." He cited the lack of any unified liberal reaction to the current Hollywood hearings of the Un-American Activities Committee, adding that he noticed this "complete failure of understanding" in university professors he met in this country...
...American novel of the last twenty-five years has been without doubt the most vigorous form of literary expression." Spender said, but added that neither in England nor in America could great novels be written...