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SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Typed Letter Signed to fellow author Aubrey Hodes
saying that the story and poem are both interesting and powerful. I am sorry not to have written before about the poem, but it became detached from your letter and there is no indication on it of whom it is by. For this reason I did not realise that it was yours and had put it aside until I heard from the author. I am very sorry to have to return them but at the moment we have so much pressure on space that I am simply returning almost everything..., 1 side A4 on Encounter Magazine headed paper, 25 Haymarket, London, 28th June
Item Date: 1956
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With Cyril Connolly and Peter Watson, Spender co-founded Horizon magazine and served as its editor from 1939 to 1941. From 1947 to 1949, he went to the US several times and saw Auden and Isherwood. He was the editor of Encounter magazine from 1953 to 1966 but resigned after it emerged that the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which published it, was covertly funded by the CIA.
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