![]() ![]() Spender did not discover his Jewish ancestry until he was sixteen. The Spender family was of mixed German, Jewish, and English origin. Both parents died while Spender was still an adolescent. Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĮarly Loss of Parents Stephen Harold Spender was born February 28, 1909, in London, to Harold Spender, a liberal political journalist, and his wife, Violet Hilda, an invalid who painted and wrote poetry. After the Second World War, Spender produced less poetry and concentrated on critical and autobiographical writing, editing, and lecturing at universities in England and the United States. Like others in the group, Spender wrote with a social and political consciousness, reflecting such turbulent events as the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, the rise of fascism, and World War II. Stephen Spender is best known as a member of the generation of British poets who came to prominence in the 1930s known as the Oxford Poets. The Struggle of the Modern (1963) Overview GENRE: Poetry, nonfiction, drama, fiction ![]()
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