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Hace 2 días · The war had knocked the ball floor from under middle-class English life – Stephen Spender, author and poet Any other assistance, the order recorded, “that the Sahibs may require either by day or by night, on the march or during halts, should be faithfully given in the best possible way in order to maintain friendly relations between the British and Tibetan governments”.
Hace 3 días · Another patient named in the report was Tony Hyndman, the former boyfriend of Stephen Spender, who appears as ‘Jimmy Younger’ in Spender’s 1951 autobiography World Within World. The report tactfully refers to Spender only as ‘a very famous writer’, adding that he ‘later married and ditched’ Hyndman, who was now living in the area and hopelessly addicted to drugs.
Hace 5 días · Battlestar Galactica is a highly acclaimed science fiction television series that aired from 2004 to 2009. The show follows the remaining humans as they try to survive in a post-apocalyptic world after the destruction of their civilization by highly advanced robots known as Cylons.
Hace 5 días · The library was presented in 1984, and reflects Campbell’s literary connections formed at Oxford. He was a contemporary and friend of Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden and his library contains much English literature and secondary material of the 1930s with large holdings of Auden, Spender, Pound, Forster and Norman Douglas.
Hace 4 días · Undoubtedly, popular perceptions of the first German Republic in the Anglophone world have been and continue to be shaped primarily by accounts given by Isherwood and his friends W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender.
Hace 5 días · There are also letters from major British and world figures, such as Kingsley Amis, T. S. Eliot, Ian Fleming, E. M. Forster, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, and Stephen Spender. Maurice Lindsay's role as editor and broadcaster placed him at the centre of Scottish cultural life for over sixty years.
Hace 3 días · He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and a winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize, Northern Writers Awards for Poetry and Fiction, Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, and POETRY’s Editors Prize for Reviewing. His first novel is Diamond Hill (2021).
