honours Spender was awarded the Golden PEN Award in 1995. Works Spiritual Exercises (1943, privately printed) Poems of Dedication (1947) The Edge of Being (1949) Collected Poems, 1928–1953 (1955) "An Elementary School in a Slum" (1964) Selected Poems (1965) The Express (1966) The Generous Days (1971) Selected Poems (1974) Recent Poems (1978) Collected Poems 1928–1985 (1986) Dolphins (1994) New Collected Poems, edited by Michael Brett, (2004) Drama Trial of a Judge (1938) Rasputin's End (opera libretto, music by Nicolas Nabokov, 1958) The Oedipus Trilogy (1985) Novels and short story collections The Burning Cactus (1936, stories) The Backward Son (1940) Engaged in Writing (1958) The Temple (written 1929; published 1988) Criticism, travel books and essays The Destructive Element (1935) Forward from Liberalism (1937) Life and the Poet (1942) Citizens in War – and After (1945) European Witness (1946) Poetry Since 1939 (1945) The God that Failed (1949, with others, ex-Communists' testimonies) Learning Laughter (1952) The Creative Element (1953) The Making of a Poem The Struggle of the Modern (1963) The Year of the Young Rebels (1969) Love-Hate Relations (1974) Eliot (1975; Fontana Modern Masters) W. H. Auden: A Tribute (edited by Spender, 1975) The Thirties and After (1978) China Diary (with David Hockney, 1982) Memoir World Within World (1951). This autobiography is a re-creation of much of the political and social atmosphere of the 1930s. Letters and journals Letters to Christopher: Stephen Spender's Letter to Christopher Isherwood (1980) Journals, 1939–1983 (1985) New Selected Journals, 1939–1995 (2012) See also List of Gresham Professors of Rhetoric References Further reading Hynes, Samuel. The Auden Generation. 1976. Spender, Matthew. A House in St John's Wood: In Search of My Parents. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. Sutherland, John. Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography. 2004; U.S. edition: Stephen Spender: A Literary Life. 2005. External links Stephen Spender Collection at the Harry Ransom Center profile and poems at Poets.org profile and poems written and audio at Poetry Archive profile and poems at Poetry Foundation Ernest Hilbert reviews of Stephen Spender's autobiography World Within World. Random House Publishers Stephen Spender Trust "Spender's Lives" – Ian Hamilton, The New Yorker "Stephen Spender, Toady: Was there any substance to his politics and art?" – Stephen Metcalf, Slate.com, 7 February 2005 Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Stephen Spender collection, circa 1940-1987 1909 births 1995 deaths Alumni of University College, Oxford Academics of University College London American