Biography stephen spender poems i think continually
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"I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great,"by Stephen Spender, from his Collected Poems(Random House).It's the anniversary of the British Raid on Cologne, The Royal Air Force sent a thousand bombers, the largest group of attack aircraft in history, to hit Cologne, which was the rail and industrial center on the floden rhen in Nazi Germany. The RAF caught the Germans off guard, and for about an hour and a half, without any let-up, one plane every six seconds dropped its bombs. The city was flattened at a loss of only 44 British planes.
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It's the birthday of Britain's favorite ghost-story writer, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, born in Middlesex, England (). He started writing them at night after selling furni
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🖋 🌠 WONDERFUL WORDS: The Truly Great
February is a month of extraordinary birthdays: Copernicus, Galileo, George Washington, Thomas Paine, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Dmitri Mendeleev, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Edison, Babe Ruth, and more. In their collective honor, our homeschool poem-of-the-week for the third week of February is Stephen Spender&#;s minor masterpiece, &#;The Truly Great.&#; Invite your students to make it their literary friend for life.
The Truly Great
I think continually of those who were truly great.
Who, from the womb, remembered the soul’s history
Through corridors of light, where the hours are suns,
Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition
Was that their lips, still touched with fire,
Should tell of the Spirit, clothed from head to foot in song.
And who hoarded from the Spring branches
The desires falling across their bodies like blossoms.What is precious, is never to forget
The essential delight of the blood drawn f•
Stephen Spender
English poet and man of letters (–)
Sir Stephen Harold SpenderCBE (28 February – 16 July ) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in
Early life
[edit]Spender was born in Kensington, London, to journalist Harold Spender and Violet Hilda Schuster, a painter and poet, of German Jewish heritage.[1][2] He went first to Hall School in Hampstead and then at 13 to Gresham's School, Holt and later Charlecote School in Worthing, but he was unhappy there. On the death of his mother, he was transferred to University College School (Hampstead), which he later described as "that gentlest of schools".[3] Spender left for Nantes and Lausanne and then went up to University College, Oxford (much later, in , he was made an honorary fellow). Spender said at various times throughout h