Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender

Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965.

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    I say, stamping the words with emphasis,
    Drink from here energy and only energy,
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    Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.
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    Death to the killers, bringing light to life.
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