Stephen Spender
English poet and critic associated with the 1930s Auden group whose poems express liberal humanist values and antifascist politics. The Still Centre is his finest collection.
Works
- PoemsEarly poems of political commitment and personal exploration by a modernist poet
- The Still CentrePoetry collection exploring inner emotional life with restraint and classical form
- Collected PoemsComplete poems of an intellectual modernist engaged with politics, art, and consciousness
- World Within WorldAutobiography of a poet documenting his engagement with art, politics, and society