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A Way of Caring: Notes From a Journal
“By caring I mean the pursuit of knowledge and the determination to pursue knowledge.”
W. H. Auden and His Poetry
STEPHEN SPENDER, who came to prominence in the early thirties as one of the most gifted writers of what was called, at the time, the new English poetry, was a contemporary of W. H. Auden at Oxford and has remained his close friend. Haring shared in many of Auden"s interests and experiences, Mr. Spender can discuss the evolution of Auden’s poetic ideas with the sympathy of a friend as well as the insight of a distinguished critic.
"Horizon" and Cyril Connolly
STEPHEN SPENDER, the English poet, whose latest volume of verse, Edge of Being, appeared in 1949, has been writing his autobiography, which will be published early in the new year by Harcourt, Brace. With the backing of Peter Watson and the editorial initiative of Cyril Connolly, Mr. Spender helped to found Horizon, the English monthly, and in the pages which follow he recounts its early beginnings, its success, and the factors which led to the regretful decision to suspend publication at the end of its first decade.