[1] "Whatever happens, I shall never be alone. I shall always have a boy, a railway fare, or a revolution."
Father: (journalist)
Mother: Violet Hilda Schuster (one Jewish parent)
Boyfriend: Tony Hyndman ("Jimmy Younger")
Wife: Natasha Litvin (pianist, m. 1941)
High School: Gresham's School, Holt
University: University College, Oxford University
Professor: University College London (1970-77)
Encounter Critic (1953-67)
Commander of the British Empire 1962
Knighthood 1983
Jewish Ancestry Maternal
Author of books:
Twenty Poems (1930, poetry)
Vienna (1934, poetry)
The Destructive Element (1935, criticism)
Poems of Dedication (1936, poetry)
The Burning Cactus (1936, short stories)
The Still Centre (1939, poetry)
The Backward Son (1940, novel)
Ruins and Visions (1942, poetry)
Poems of Dedication (1947, poetry)
The Edge of Being (1949, poetry)
World Within World (1951, memoir)
The Creative Element (1953, criticism)
The Making of a Poem (1955, criticism)
Collected Poems, 1928-1953 (1955, poetry)
The Struggle of the Modern (1963, criticism)
Selected Poems (1965, poetry)
The Generous Days (1971, poetry)
Selected Poems (1974, poetry)
Love-Hate Relations (1974, essays)
The Thirties and After (1978, essays)
Collected Poems 1928-1985 (1986, poetry)
Dolphins (1994, poetry)
Wrote plays:
Trial of a Judge (1938)
AKA Stephen Harold Spender