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Stephen Spender Bibliography   prepared by Michael Brett
 Works by Stephen Spender 

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.

(* Spender's works still in print are marked in bold with an asterisk.)

 Works about Stephen Spender 

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.


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.


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