← Stephen SpenderWorld Within Worldby Stephen SpenderAutobiography of a poet documenting his engagement with art, politics, and societyFind on Amazon↗About the authorStephen SpenderEnglish 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.More by Stephen SpenderPoemsEarly 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→