Word: spender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connolly was frank to say that he did not think they would. Founded in 1939 with the money of dairy-fortune heir Peter Watson and the brains of waspish, cherubic Editor Connolly and Poet Stephen Spender, Horizon never reached more than 10,000 subscribers, though it was probably the best of the little magazines. Lately circulation and advertising had been slipping and costs rising. More important, the galaxy of literary lights who had once brightened its pages-T. S. Eliot, Arthur Koestler, Evelyn Waugh-have not shown there in the last year...
...Stephen Spender discussed "The Outer and Inner Worlds of Goethe" at Sanders Theater last night in the third lecture of the current Goethe Bicentennial Celebration series...
...English post called Goethe "the last of the worldly poets" who sought to achieve universality. Spender emphasized the German poet-scientist's success at avoiding the rising tide of subjectivism which has since engulfed modern poetry by involving himself in activities of the outer world...
...Stephen Spender, English poet and critic, will speak on "The Outer and Inner Worlds of Goethe" at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theater. The talk is a part of the University's three-month Goethe Bicentennial celebration...
...Spender was here in 1949 to give a Morris Gray Poetry Reading. Last summer he spoke at the Goethe Bicentennial at Aspen, Colorado...