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Stephen Spender
Stephen Spender
(1909-1995 / England)
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Stephen Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965 more >>
 
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''Far far from gusty waves, these children's faces.
Like rootless weeds the torn hair round their paleness.''
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Stephen Spender (1909-1995), British poet. An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (l. 1-2). . . Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (7t...
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''Unless, governor, teacher inspector, visitor,
This map becomes their window and these windows
That open on their lives like crouching tombs
Break, O break open,''
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Stephen Spender (1909-1995), British poet. An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (l. 25-28). . . Modern British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (...
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