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Stephen Spender [1909-1995] English
Rank: 107
Poet (with poems)

Auden Group, Formalism, Laureate


Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.

Dreams, Poetry, Religion



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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
101
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Poetry
102
Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun. Religion
103
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
104
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course. Dreams
105

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