Talk:Stephen Spender

message: Spender's birthday was February 28. The homosexual emphasis on the page so far is excessive.
:Agree. Page needs far more about his writings. He is primarily known as a left wing writer. The gay thing needn't take up most of the article.
:Yes.  Apparently, some "advocate" decided to hold forth.  Have cleaned up the mess.  Still needs a good home for remaining "orphan" links. — J M Rice 15:27, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Just for whatever it's worth, Spender got quite cranky on the subject of homosexuality later in his life.  I heard him speak twice, and both times his talk was comprised almost entirely of anecodtes of himself and Eliot, himself and Woolf, etc., and he thundered angrily at anyone who might spread terrible rumors about Virginia Woolf's being a lesbian or, even worse, Leonard Woolf's being bisexual or homosexual.  It was a puzzling display.  I believe he even wrote a book on the subject of V.W.'s not being lesbian?  At any rate, if his late statements do not gibe with his early statements on his own sexuality, it is not surprising, since his late statement on the subject of relatively well known same-sex oriented people of his youth didn't gibe with the statements made by virtually all others. Geogre 16:49, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spender and revisionism 

message: Isn't it time it got addressed in the article? It is a subject that generates a fair amount of interest. I don't know whether I'd like to write about it myself - I am sure there is somebody who knows more about the subject - and, of course, it is unpleasant. (Or is that POV?) Hasdrubal 06:06, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The unpleasant matter of Encounter's funding

message: I see a certain editor takes issue with my description of Spender as an anti-Communist in the categories. This is fairly self-evident in the fact that he contributed to a major anti-Communist book, The God that Failed. I suspect this will be online somewhere, but appearing in this book is what one could call "nailing your colours to the mast."--MacRusgail (talk) 16:45, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Anti-Communism

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message: In the section headed "Career" and the para beginning "In 1936" the text says "Spender was imprisoned for a while in Albacete."  I'm not at all sure about this.  Having just read his autobiography "World within World", I note that it was actually "Jimmy Younger" Spender's former partner who was imprisoned in Albacete (then under the control of the Republicans) as a would-be deserter.  One of Spender's great preoccupations at the time was to get him home safely, as he felt responsible.  The book contains a lengthy, first person account from "Jimmy" which talks about his imprisonment among other things, so I wonder has somebody misread it as being Spender himself talking?  I don't recall seeing any evidence of Spender ever having been imprisoned by his "own" side, but does somebody know something I don't?  Thanks 92.24.62.247 (talk) 13:33, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Albacete