description: While Spender's brilliant autobiography, first published in 1951 and out of print for 12 years, has gained new prominence as a result of its thematic appropriation by David Leavitt in While England Sleeps, the work remains a powerful classic in its own right, recognized as one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have emerged from the 1920s and 1930s.
title: WORLD WITHIN WORLD: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN SPENDER.
titlecomplete: WORLD WITHIN WORLD: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN SPENDER.
characters: Stephen Spender
genres: 20th Century, Biography, LGBT, Poetry, Literature, Autobiography, Nonfiction, British Literature, Memoir, Contemporary
ratings_count: 163
publisher: Hamish Hamilton