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Private faces in public places
Are wiser and nicer
Than public faces in private places.

W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932

Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his death in 1995. In choosing from these voluminous journals for the new edition, the editors have tried to provide a picture of the various lives Spender brought together in autobiographical form.

The earlier 1985 edition of the Journals was overseen by the author, and it privileged his thoughts about poetry - his own and other people''s. The new edition includes the final ten years of Spender''s life and provides access to the more intimate thoughts and feelings of the private man, but equally documents his life as a public intellectual who played a part in shaping the European literary and intellectual culture of his age.

As we look back on the dramatic events of

New Selected Journals 19391995

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 5 July 2012
      ISBN-13 9780571237579
      978-0571237579
      ISBN-10 0571237576

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Private faces in public places
      Are wiser and nicer
      Than public faces in private places.

      W.H. Auden, dedication to Stephen Spender, 1932

      Stephen Spender wrote almost a million words of journal entries between his September Journal in 1939 and his death in 1995. In choosing from these voluminous journals for the new edition, the editors have tried to provide a picture of the various lives Spender brought together in autobiographical form.

      The earlier 1985 edition of the Journals was overseen by the author, and it privileged his thoughts about poetry - his own and other people''s. The new edition includes the final ten years of Spender''s life and provides access to the more intimate thoughts and feelings of the private man, but equally documents his life as a public intellectual who played a part in shaping the European literary and intellectual culture of his age.

      As we look back on the dramatic events of

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