Stephen Spender - October 13, 1975

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UA Poetry Center

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Modern Languages Auditorium
Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender reads widely from his earlier works, including Poems (1933), The Still Centre (1939), and The Generous Days (1969); he also reads journal excerpts. Reproduced by kind permission of the Estate of Stephen Spender. 

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Introduction
Description

by Lois Shelton

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"Consider if you will how lovers stand..."
Description

Early poem by W. H. Auden.

Citation

Auden, W. H. Poems. [Oxford]: S.H.S. [privately printed by Stephen Spender], 1928.

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"The Secret Agent"
Description

Early poem by W. H. Auden.

Citation

Auden, W. H. Collected Poems. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.

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"Not to you I sighed. No, not a word"
Citation

Spender, Stephen. Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.

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"Acts passed beyond the boundary of mere wishing"
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Spender, Stephen. Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.

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"Rolled over on Europe: the sharp dew frozen to stars"
Citation

Spender, Stephen. Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.

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"My parents kept me from children who were rough"
Description

Differs slightly from published version. 

Citation

Spender, Stephen. Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.

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"What I expected" and "Who live under the shadow of a war"
Description

"What I expected" differs from published version. 

Citation

Spender, Stephen. Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.

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"I think continually of those who were truly great"
Citation

Spender, Stephen. Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.

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"The Express"
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Differs from published version.

Citation

Spender, Stephen. Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.

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"The Pylons"
Citation

Spender, Stephen. Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.

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"An Elementary School Class Room in a Slum"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Spender, Stephen. The Still Centre. London: Faber & Faber, 1939.

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"Two Armies"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Spender, Stephen. The Still Centre. London: Faber & Faber, 1939.

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"Ultima Ratio Regum"
Citation

Spender, Stephen. The Still Centre. London: Faber & Faber, 1939.

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"From My Diary" and journal excerpt
Description

Uncollected.

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"One More New Botched Beginning"
Citation

Spender, Stephen. The Generous Days. Boston: David R. Godine, 1969.

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Stephen Spender
Photographer
Lois Shelton
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