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...poet passed his 60th birthday in the midst of a six-week reading tour at colleges in the U.S. Back in London, the Sunday Times invited some of W. H. Auden's rhyming friends to celebrate the event. Stephen Spender, Christopher Logue, Maurice Wiggin and Ted Hughes all sent in earnest occasional paeans...
...Violet [Bonham Carter],' she snaps; 'he is the greatest Englishman that ever lived.'" For all his preoccupation with ominous world events, Nicolson still found time to visit the Cambridge Union for a debate with Stephen Spender on the subject...
...must be political." Nicolson said no, and won, but recalls that Spender remarked, "I fear I cannot make an amusing speech. I have just been reading a book which says that all geniuses are devoid of humor...
...find it surprising that you described Encounter [Sept. 2] without mentioning either of the cofounders, Irving Kristol and Stephen Spender. Mr. Spender has played a unique part in the literary life of our time. Horizon and Encounter, both of which he edited (the first with Cyril Connolly, the second with Irving Kristol and, after him, Melvin Lasky), have published much of the most interesting criticism and original writing in the last 30 years. The achievements and international standing of Encounter are scarcely conceivable without the influence of Stephen Spender's personal and literary authority...
...TIME has frequently noted Mr. Spender's and Mr. Kristol's achievements in the past. Spender resigned from Encounter last year to become consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. Kristol left in 1958, is currently an editor of The Public Interest (TIME, March...