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Home Rule
Reproduction of the original: Home Rule by Harold Spender
Home Rule (Esprios Classics)
Edward Harold Spender (22 June 1864 - 15 April 1926), was a British Liberal Party politician, author, journalist and lecturer. He was educated at Bath College where he was Head Boy from 1882-83. Harold was a friend of David Lloyd George, with whom he went hiking, and travelled to Germany. He was on the staff of the Echo from 1887-89. He was Lecturer for Oxford University Extension Delegacy from 1889-92. He was on the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette from 1891-93, the Westminster Gazette from 1893-95, the Daily Chronicle from 1895-99, the Manchester Guardian from 1899-1900 and the Daily News from 1900-14. During the war he gave himself up to war savings propaganda, volunteering, and other war activities from 1914-18.
The Prime Minister
The Prime Minister by Harold Spender is a biography of David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. He was a Liberal Party politician from Wales, known for leading the United Kingdom during the First World War. Prime Minister George's social reform policies included the National Insurance Act 1911, participation in the Paris Peace Conference, the establishment of the Irish Free State, disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales, and support of Welsh devolution in his early career.
The Still Centre
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The Imagination in the Modern World
Three Lectures Presented Under The Auspices Of The Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund.
World Within World
Presents the British poet's autobiography, including portraits of friends Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, W.B. Yeats, and Christopher Isherwood.
The Generous Days
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The Struggle of the Modern
Shelley said, in his Defence of Poetry, that poetry should be both centre and circumference of knowledge. In his new book, Spender takes Shelley's claim and relates it to modern literature. He points out that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, writers have been conscious of there being a problem of creating literature in the industrial era. All the discussions of tradition, symbolism, myth and the rest are part of a conscious strategy of writers to come to terms with a modern world which they feel presents quite special problems for them. Spender shows how Matthew Arnold's idea that criticism might be more important than poetry in our time, was taken over by poets who wrote criticism, an...
Letters to Christopher
Spender maakte deel uit van de vriendenkring rond Auden en Isherwood. Dit boek bevat de brieven die hij tussen 1929 en 1939 aan Isherwood schreef en een tweetal dagboeken uit dezelfde periode.
European Witness
Stephen Spender was one of a group of highly influential left-wing writers and artists who came to prominence in Britain in the 1930s, including W H Auden and Christopher Isherwood.
