A Great Big Silly Goose
Seamus Perry: Characteristically Spenderish, 21 May 2020
Poems Written Abroad: The Lilly Library Manuscript
by Stephen Spender.
Indiana, 112 pp., £27.99, July 2019,978 0 253 04167 8 Show More
by Stephen Spender.
Indiana, 112 pp., £27.99, July 2019,
“... and shortly afterwards he did. Spender told the story of this first interview over and over again: John Sutherland, his biographer, calculates that he repeated it at least six times in print and uncountable times in lectures and talks and interviews, as well as in conversation. Spender would come to resent Auden’s tendency always to think of him as he had ... ”