Stephen Spender

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

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

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

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.

Lucian Freud obituary 2011

Stephen Spender in his poem The Pylons writes of them as "bare like nude giant girls that have no secrets".

Letters: Brighton early 2011

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

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

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.

Portraits of the artists 2011

In 1965, he replaced Stephen Spender as the co-editor of Encounter, to which he had contributed for several years.

Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010

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