In 1933, Stephen Spender fell in love with Tony Hyndman ('Jimmy Younger'). Auden, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood His autobiography, World within World (1951), is a re-creation of much of the political and social atmosphere of the 1930s. His convictions found further expression in Vienna (1934), a long poem in praise of the 1934 uprising of Viennese socialists, and in Trial of a Judge (1938), an anti-Fascist drama in verse. His early poetry, notably Poems (1933) was often inspired by social protest. Eliot, as well as members of the Bloomsbury Group, in particular Virginia Woolf.

Yeats, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Hughes, Joseph Brodsky, Isaiah Berlin, Mary McCarthy, Roy Campbell, Raymond Chandler, Dylan Thomas, Jean-Paul Sartre and T. He was friendly with David Jones and later come to know W. Around this time he was also friends with Christopher Isherwood (who had also lived in Weimar Germany), and fellow Macspaunday members Louis MacNeice and Cecil Day-Lewis. Perhaps his closest friend and the man who had the biggest influence on him was W. He said at various times throughout his life that he never passed an exam, ever. He left Oxford without taking a degree and subsequently lived for periods of time in Germany. On the death of his mother he was transferred to University College School (Hampstead), which he later described as 'that gentlest of Schools.' Spender subsequently went up to University College, Oxford where, in 1973, he was made an honorary fellow. He went first to Hall School in Hampstead and then at thirteen to Gresham's School in Holt and later Charlecote School in Worthing, but was unhappy there. Spender was born in Kensington, London, to journalist Edward Harold Spender and Violet Hilda Schuster, a painter and poet. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965. Elisa_rolle Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.

Der Tempel by Stephen Spender