The thirties and after: poetry, politics, people, 1933-75

In these brilliantly written short essays, journals and memoirs, Stephen Spender unveils the kernel of important events (brutal wars and rebellions), of ideologies and of the `real’ messages behind the words of well-known authors. He captures the moods of whole decades of the 20th century and expresses outspokenly his vision on art and the artist.
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nWar.
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nMoods
nIdeologies
nArt, the artist, politics
nLiterature (D. H. Lawrence, W.H. Auden, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot)