Poems
London: Faber & Faber, (1933).
Price: $850.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Cloth. Endpapers foxed, cloth professionally and nearly invisibly repaired at the front joint, light chipping at the spine ends, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Spender to his uncle, a political writer who had considerable influence on the poet: "For J.H. Spender with best love from Stephen." The poet's first regularly published book. A splendid association copy.
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Stephen Spender
birth name: Stephen Spender
born: 2/28/1909
died: 7/16/1995
Biography
English poet and critic, who made his reputation in the 1930s with poems expressing the politically conscience-stricken, leftist "new writing" of that period. He was later known less for his poetry than for his perceptive criticism and for his editorial association with the influential reviews Horizon (1940-41) and Encounter (1953-67). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore