Word: spender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stephen Spender, leading British poet, will make his second public appearance here in two days when he participates in a symposium on "The Intellectual Future of Europe" in the Dunster House Dining hall at 8:15 o'clock tonight...
Nearly 1000 listeners gathered in New Lecture Hall yesterday to hear Spender read selections from his works, including 'Ultima Ratio Regnum" and a long in complete poem, titled "Vienna." He was introduced to the audience by Theodore Spencer, Boylston professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who termed Spender "one of those rare Englishmen who is also a good European...
...Stephen Spender, well-known British poet, will become the ninety-first Morris Gray Fund speaker when he addresses a New Lecture Hall audience on October 31, Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, disclosed yesterday...
...Spender, who along with W. H. Auden is recognized as one of the leaders of British letters today, is teaching at Sarah Lawrence College this year. Most successful as a lyric poet, he has been influential in rekindling the spirit of European culture. He was graduated from Oxford...
...Europe has shrunk," observed Poet Stephen Spender in Manhattan. "It is now only a small nose on a vast body which is Asia." He turned to the subject of writing. "Journalism," said he, "has a way of killing the creative writing in a man, because . . . you have to put more and more of your thoughts into your articles, in a simplified form. . . . Soon you find you're producing a kind of perpetual Reader's Digest of yourself...