POETRY AND DRAMA

Nine Experiments, (London, 1928); reprinted, Cincinnati: University Press, 1964

Twenty Poems, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1930

Poems, London: Faber and Faber, 1933

Poems, (expanded edition), London: Faber and Faber, 1934

Vienna, London: Faber and Faber, 1934

Trial of a Judge, London: Faber and Faber, 1938

The Still Centre, London: Faber and Faber, 1939

Selected Poems, London: Faber and Faber, 1940

Ruins and Visions, London: Faber and Faber, 1942

Spiritual Exercises, (privately printed), 1943

Poems of Dedication, London: Faber and Faber, 1947

The Edge of Being, London: Faber and Faber, 1949

Collected Poems 1928-1953, London: Faber and Faber, 1955

Selected Poems (2), London: Faber and Faber, 1965

The Generous Days, London: Faber and Faber, 1971

Recent Poems, London: Anvil Press, 1978

*New Collected Poems (ed. Michael Brett), London: Faber and Faber, 1984

The Oedipus Trilogy, London: Faber and Faber, 1985

Collected Poems 1928-1985, London: Faber and Faber, 1985

Dolphins, London: Faber and Faber, 1994

*Selected Poems of Stephen Spender, (ed. Grey Gowrie), London, Faber and Faber, 2009

FICTION

The Burning Cactus, London: Faber and Faber, 1936

The Backward Son, London: Hogarth Press, 1940

Engaged in Writing, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958

The Temple, London: Faber and Faber, 1988

CRITICISM AND OTHER PROSE

The Destructive Element, London: Jonathan Cape, 1935

Forward from Liberalism, London: Victor Gollancz, 1937

Life and the Poet, London: Secker and Warburg,1942

European Witness, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946

Poetry Since 1939, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1946

The God That Failed (ed. R. Crossman), 1949

World Within World, London: Faber and Faber, 1951

Learning Laughter, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1952

Shelley, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1952

The Creative Element, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953

The Making of a Poem, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955

Imagination in the Modern World (lectures), Washington: Library of Congress, 1962

The Struggle of the Modern, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963

The Year of the Young Rebels, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969

Love Hate Relations, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974

W. H. Auden: A Tribute, (ed.), London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975

T. S. Eliot, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976

The Thirties and After, London: Macmillan, 1978

Letters to Christopher (ed. Lee Bartlett), California: Black Sparrow Press, 1980

China Diary (with David Hockney), London: Thames and Hudson, 1982

Journals 1939-1983 (ed. John Goldsmith), London: Faber and Faber, 1985

RELATED LITERATURE

Cunningham, Valentine, (ed.), The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse, Harmondsworth, 1996

Graves, Robert and Hodge, Alan, The Long Weekend: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939, London: Faber and Faber, 1940

Isherwood, Chrisopher, Lions and Shadows, London: Hogarth Press, 1938

Isherwood, Christopher, Christopher and His Kind, London: Eyre Methuen, 1977

Isherwood, Christopher, Diaries Volume One: 1939-1960, London: Methuen, 1996

MacNeice, Louis, The Strings are False, (ed. E. R. Dodds), London: Faber and Faber, 1965

Roberts, Michael, (ed.), The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936 edition), London: Faber and Faber, 1982

Skelton, Robin, (ed.), Poetry of the Thirties, Harmondsworth, 1964

Sutherland, John, (ed.), Stephen Spender, The Authorized Biography, London: Viking, 2004

CRITICISM

Bergonzi, Bernard, Reading the Thirties, Texts and Contexts, London: Macmillan, 1978

Caesar, Adrian, Dividing Lines: poetry, class and ideology in the 1930s, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991

Cunningham, Valentine, British Writers of the Thirties, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988

Durrell, Lawrence, A Key to Modern British Poetry, Oklahoma, 1970

Fraser, G. S., Vision and Rhetoric, London: Faber and Faber, 1959

Hynes, Samuel, The Auden Generation, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1976

O'Neill, Michael and Reeves, Gareth, Auden, MacNeice, Spender: The Thirties Poetry, London: Macmillan, 1992

Weatherhead, A. K., Stephen Spender and the Thirties, London: Associated University Press, 1975

Whitehead, John, A Commentary on the Poetry of W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kulkarni, H. B., Stephen Spender: Works and Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography, New York, 1976

Tolley, A. T., The Early Published Poems of Stephen Spender: a chronology, Ottawa, 1967