Stephen Spender Explicates the Early Auden, ‘Twentieth Century' (Promethean Society)

Distinguished poet, playwright, literary critic, autobiographer, and travel writer, Stephen Spender (b. 1909) was Professor of English at University College, London, from 1968 to 1973. With Cyril Connolly he founded and coedited ‘Horizon’ magazine from 1939 to 1942, and with Irving Kristol in 1953 he founded ‘Encounter’, which he co-edited until 1965. His publications include ‘20 Poems’ (1930), ‘Poems’, which T.S. Eliot accepted for Faber & Faber (1933), ‘Trial of a Judge’, a play (1938), ‘The Destructive Element’ (1935), ‘World Within World’, an autobiography (1951), ‘Love-Hate Relations: A study of Anglo-American Sensibilities’ (1974), ‘W.H. Auden: A Tribute’ (ed., 1975), and ‘The Thirties and After’ (1978).