STEPHEN SPENDER 'INSCRIPTIONS' 1958
Title: ‘Inscriptions’
Author: Sir Stephen Spender CBE (1909-1995)
Publication date: 1958
Publisher: Poetry Book Society, London
Pages: 4pp.
Format: Softcover. Decorative cover designed by Richard Beer (1928-2017). Limited edition of 1100
Printer: Printed by the Westerham Press
Condition: Good. A tiny nick to front panel otherwise a very good copy.
Stephen Spender was a British essayist, literary critic, playwright, poet, and translator. Spender was a central figure of the generation of British poets who rose to prominence in the 1930s, a group which included W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965. He was professor of English at University College, London from 1970 to 1977, and lectured frequently in the United States. He was knighted in 1983.
Richard Beer studied at the Slade School of Art (1945-50) before moving to Paris on a French Government Scholarship where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17. He taught printmaking at Chelsea School of Art for 40 years and was a founder member of the Printmakers Council. His work is held in numerous public collections including the Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Government Art Collection.
Title: ‘Inscriptions’
Author: Sir Stephen Spender CBE (1909-1995)
Publication date: 1958
Publisher: Poetry Book Society, London
Pages: 4pp.
Format: Softcover. Decorative cover designed by Richard Beer (1928-2017). Limited edition of 1100
Printer: Printed by the Westerham Press
Condition: Good. A tiny nick to front panel otherwise a very good copy.
Stephen Spender was a British essayist, literary critic, playwright, poet, and translator. Spender was a central figure of the generation of British poets who rose to prominence in the 1930s, a group which included W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965. He was professor of English at University College, London from 1970 to 1977, and lectured frequently in the United States. He was knighted in 1983.
Richard Beer studied at the Slade School of Art (1945-50) before moving to Paris on a French Government Scholarship where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17. He taught printmaking at Chelsea School of Art for 40 years and was a founder member of the Printmakers Council. His work is held in numerous public collections including the Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Government Art Collection.
Title: ‘Inscriptions’
Author: Sir Stephen Spender CBE (1909-1995)
Publication date: 1958
Publisher: Poetry Book Society, London
Pages: 4pp.
Format: Softcover. Decorative cover designed by Richard Beer (1928-2017). Limited edition of 1100
Printer: Printed by the Westerham Press
Condition: Good. A tiny nick to front panel otherwise a very good copy.
Stephen Spender was a British essayist, literary critic, playwright, poet, and translator. Spender was a central figure of the generation of British poets who rose to prominence in the 1930s, a group which included W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965. He was professor of English at University College, London from 1970 to 1977, and lectured frequently in the United States. He was knighted in 1983.
Richard Beer studied at the Slade School of Art (1945-50) before moving to Paris on a French Government Scholarship where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17. He taught printmaking at Chelsea School of Art for 40 years and was a founder member of the Printmakers Council. His work is held in numerous public collections including the Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Government Art Collection.
