Poems for Spain
London: The Hogarth Press, 1939.
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Hardcover. First edition. Slightly soiled, a very good copy without dustwrapper. Inscribed by John Lehmann to his sister Beatrix: "To Peg with love from John. 2.iii.39." Anthology of poems for Republican Spain, with contributions by Louis MacNeice, W.H. Auden, John Cornford, Rex Warner, Herbert Read, Roy Fuller, George Barker, Jack Lindsay, Jan Bronowski, C. Day Lewis, Sylvia Townsend Warner, F.L. Lucas, Brian Howard, Edgell Rickword, Ruthven Todd, T.A.R. Hyndman, Pablo Neruda, and others.
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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