Stephen Spender : a portrait with background / Hugh David
1992, First Edition. London : Heinemann. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #454558
ISBN: 0434175064
Physical description; xii, 308 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-298) and index. Contents; Prologue: 'Degree, priority and place' -- Part one: The making of a poet -- A little liberal -- 'Away from the women at last!' -- Songs of innocence and experience -- Part two: A man of the world -- Unter den Linden -- A charmed life -- The ballad of sexual confusion -- On the front line -- Part three: Being there -- War--and peace of a sort -- Epilogue to a human drama. Subjects; Spender, Stephen (1909-1995). Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography. Critics -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Price: €10.95