SPENDER'S LIVES
PROFILE of Stephen Spender. Writer's first meeting with Spender was in 1960, when he was president, chief executive, and general mastermind of the …
"In retrospect, I can see that this was my introduction to the limitless vanity of poets: they'll put up with anything, provided that they get to read their works." — Hamilton on hosting Spender, Auden, and Graves at Oxford.