Stephen Spender

Sir Stephen Harold Spender (February 28, 1909 – July 16, 1995) was an English poet and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.

Selected Bibliography

Poetry

• Twenty Poems (1930)
• Vienna (1934)
• Poems of Dedication (1936)
• The Still Centre (1939)
• Collected Poems, 1928-1953 (1955)
• The Generous Days (1971)
• Selected Poems (1974)
• Collected Poems 1928-19851986)
• New Collected Poems Edited by Michael Brett, 2004

Letters

• Letters (1980)

Essays

• The Destructive Element (1935)
• The God That Failed ((1949) - with others, ex-Communists' testimonies)
• The Creative Element (1953)
• The Making of a Poem (1955)
• The Struggle of the Modern (1963)
• Love-Hate Relations (1974)
• The Thirties and After (1978)

Drama

• Trial of a Judge (1938)

Memoir

• World Within World (1951)

Fiction

• The Backward Son (1940)