Male : Poet. Married Agnes Pearn in 1936 & Natasha Litvin in 1941. Homosexual. Lived in Germany. Fought in Spanish Civil War. Son of Edward Harold Spender

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1909 Date of Death : 1995 Age : 84

Other Work : Professor of English Literature at University College, London 1970

Education : Gresham's School, University College School, London & University College, Oxford

Faber unless stated
1928-1930
Nine Experiments by S H S : Being Poems written at the age of Eighteen
(1928 Hand printed by Spender)
(In) Oxford Poetry 1928 (1928 Basil Blackwell)
(Ed) Oxford Poetry 1929 (1929) - with Louis MacNeice
Twenty Poems (1930 Basil Blackwell)
(Ed) Oxford Poetry 1930 (1930) - with Bernard Spencer

1931-1940
Poems (1933) (1934 Random House)
Vienna : A Poem (1934) (1935 RH)
The Destructive Element (1935 Cape)
The Burning Cactus (1936 Faber) (1936 RH) - ss
Forward from Liberalism (1937 Gollancz)
Trial of a Judge (1938 Faber) (1938 RH)
(Ed) New Writing : New Series I & II (1938-9) - with John Lehmann & Christopher Isherwood
Danton's Death (1939) - adaptation with Goronwy Rees
The New Realism : A Discussion (1939 Hogarth Press) - pamphlet
The Still Centre (1939)
(Trans) Pastor Hall by Ernst Toller
(Ed) Poems for Spain (1939 Hogarth Press) - with John Lehmann
(Trans) Poems by Garcia Lorca (1939) - with J L Gili
(Trans) Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke (1939) - with J B Leishman
Selected Poems (1940)
The Backward Son (1940 Hogarth Press)

1941-1945
Ruins and Visions (1942) (1942 RH)
Life and the Poet (1942 Secker & Warburg) - Searchlight Books No 18
(Intro) Air Raids (1943 OUP : War Pictures by British Artists 2nd Series)
(Trans) Selected Poems by Garcia Lorca (1943) - with J L Gili
Spiritual Exercises (1943 Curwen Press) - Ltd Ed 125
Citizens in War - And After (1945 Harrap) - photos by John Hinde

1946-1950
European Witness : Impressions of Germany in 1945 (1946 H Hamilton) (1946 NY)
Poetry Since 1939 (1946 The British Council, Longmans Green)
Poems of Dedication (1947) (1947 RH)
(Ed) A Choice of English Romantic Poetry (1947)
Returning to Vienna 1947 (1947 Banyan Press, Vermont) - 500 signed
The Edge of Being (1949) (1949 RH)
(Ed) Selected Poems by Walt Whitamn (1950)
(Trans) Le Dur Desir de Durer by Paul Eluard (1950) - with Frances Cornford

1951-1955
World Within World (1951 H Hamilton) (1951 Harcourt Brace) - autobiography
(Commentary) Europe in Photographs (1951 Thames & Hudson)
(Trans) The Life of the Virgin Mary by Rainer Maria Rilke (1951)
(Trans) Five Tragedies of Sex by Frank Wedekind (1952) - with Frances Fawcett
Learning Laughter : A Study of Children in Israel (1952 Weidenfeld & Nicolson) (1953 US)
The Creative Element (1953 Hamish Hamilton 15/-)
Sirmione Peninsula (1954 Ariel Poem)
Collected Poems 1928-1953 (1955 Faber 15/-) (1955 RH)
The Making of a Poem (1955 Hamish Hamilton 15/-)

1956-1960
(Ed) New Poems 1956 (1956) - with Elizabeth Jennings & Dannie Abse
(Ed) Great Writings of Goethe (1958)
Stephen Spender's Recent Lectures in Japan (1958 Kinseido, Tokyo)
- Edited by Rikuarto Fukuda & Shozo Tokunaga
Inscriptions (1958 Poetry Book Society)
Engaged in Writing and The Fool and the Princess (1958 H Hamilton) (1958 Farrar Straus)
Mary Stuart (1959) - adaptation from Schiller
(Ed) Great German Short Stories (1960)

1961-1970
(Ed) The Writer's Dilemma (1961)
The Struggle of the Modern (1963 HH)
(Ed) The Concise Encyclopaedia of English & American Poets and Poetry (1963)
- with Donald Hall
(Ed) Encounters : An Anthology from Irs First ten Years (1963)
- with irving Kristol & Melvin J Lasky
Selected Poems (1964 RH) (1965)
Chaos and Control in Poetry : A Lecture (1966 Library of Congress, Washington)
The Year of the Young Rebels (1969 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Generous Days (1969 Godine, Boston - 50 signed & numbered) (1972 £1) (1971 RH)
Art Student (1970 Poem of the Month Club) - single sheet

1971-1980
(Ed) Selected Poems by Abba Kovner and Nelly Sachs (1971)
(Ed) A Choice of Shelley's Verse (1971)
(Ed) D H Lawrence : Novelist, Poet, Prophet (1973)
Love-Hate Relations : A Study of Anglo-American Sensibilities (1974 HH) (1974 NY)
(Ed) The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1974)
T S Eliot (1975 Fontana) - pb
The Thirties and After : Poetry, Politics, and People 1933-1975 (1975 Fontana)
W H Auden : A Memorial Address delivered at Christ Church Cathedral Oxford
on 27 October 1973 (1975 Faber) - booklet
(Ed) W H Auden : A Tribute (1975 Weidenfeld & Nicolson) (1975 Macmillan US)
(Trans) Fourteen Poems by C P Cavafy (1977) - with Nikos Stangos
Cyril Connolly : A Memoir (1978 London)
Recent Poems (1978 Anvil Press Poetry) - 400 signed copies
Letters to Christopher (1980 Black Sparrow Press)

After 1981
China Diary (1982 Thames & Hudson) - with David Hockney
The Year of the Young Rebels Revisited (1984 US) - 50 signed
Journals 1939-1983 (1985 Faber) - 150 signed (1988)
Collected Poems 1928-1985 (1985) (1985 NY)
Oedipus trilogy (1985 Faber)
The Temple (1988 Faber) (1988 NY)
Dolphins (1992) (1994 NY)
Henry Moore : Sculptures in Landscape (nd. Clarkson N Potter, NY)

READING
Derek Stanford : Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice & C Day Lewis - A Critical Essay (1969)
Andrew K Weatherhead : Stephen Spender and the Thirties (1974)
A K Weatherhead : Stephen Spender and the Thirties (1975 US)
H B Kulkarni : Stephen Spender - Works and Criticism : An Annotated Bibliography (1977)
Hugh David : Stephen Spender - A Portrait with Background (1992 Heinemann)
David Leeming : Stephen Spender - A Life in Modernism (1999 Duckworth £20)
John Sutherland : Stephen Spender - The Authorised Biography (2004 Penguin/Viking £25)