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She has truly made, to borrow a phrase from Stephen Spender, a "miniature Iliad ", taut, fluid and graceful, its tones knelling like bells into the clear air, ringing out in remembrance of all the untimely dead: "All vigorous men / All vanished".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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For a dollar or two, I was privileged to look over the shoulders of the intelligentsia of the day – Lionel Trilling, Stephen Spender, Hannah Arendt, Alfred Kazin et al – as they went at one another over important issues such as the Eichmann trial and/or more trivial pursuits as to who slept with whom on a particular Bloomsbury weekend or who was still a Stalinist after the purge trials of 1937.
John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website 2012
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Despite having written poems as vivid and compelling as this, Spencer never found the prominence of the poets with whom he is associated: Keith Douglas, Lawrence Durrell, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice.
Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose by Bernard Spencer – review 2011
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By the age of 18, the charismatic, talented young man with a famous name had attracted friends such as Stephen Spender and the wealthy collector and patron Peter Watson.
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Stephen Spender in his poem The Pylons writes of them as "bare like nude giant girls that have no secrets".
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I met the likes of Stephen Spender, Bruce Chatwin, the publisher John Murray and the historian Steven Runciman passing by my hut, where I lived a lotus-eating life by the sea without electricity or running water.
So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011
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I met the likes of Stephen Spender, Bruce Chatwin, the publisher John Murray and the historian Steven Runciman passing by my hut, where I lived a lotus-eating life by the sea without electricity or running water.
So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011
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Bernard Kops with wife and son, John Bratby with wife and son, Paul Millichip with wife and two children, Stephen Spender with Matthew and Lizzie Spender – they all look relaxed in front of the camera.
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In 1965, he replaced Stephen Spender as the co-editor of Encounter, to which he had contributed for several years.
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In the 1960s Christopher Isherwood — the British-born writer best known for "Goodbye to Berlin" (1939), from which the musical "Cabaret" was made — is living in Southern California, trying to understand Eastern mysticism and practice its rituals, worrying about his health, entertaining visitors (Charles Laughton, Stephen Spender), teaching and writing, making a home with his partner (the portrait artist Don Bachardy), and keeping a diary.
Diaries Erich Eichman 2010
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