Collected Poems, 1928-85 by Stephen Spender

Collected Poems, 1928-85 by Stephen Spender

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This revised and enlarged edition reissued to celebrate Stephen Spender's 80th birthday, in which he has made considerable changes to the original edition of 1955, includes recent and unpublished poems, while others have been discarded or rewritten.

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Collected Poems, 1928-85 by Stephen Spender

For the revised and enlarged edition of his collected poems - reissued to celebrate his 80th birthday - Stephen Spender has made considerable changes from the text of the original edition of 1955. He has included a number of recent and unpublished poems, discarded several others and recast and rewritten much of the work in the earlier collection. Among recent poems included are remembrances of Louis MacNiece, Igor Stravinsky and W.H.Auden. There are also some early poems based on Rilke, Lorca and Altolguirre and choruses from Sir Stephen's translation of Sophocles' Oedipus trilogy.
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ISBN 13 9780571136667
ISBN 10 0571136664
Title Collected Poems, 1928-85
Author Stephen Spender
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 1989-02-20
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.