{"product_id":"world-within-world-the-autobiography-of-stephen-spender-modern-library","title":"World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender (Modern Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"In this book I am mainly concerned with a few themes: love; poetry; politics; the life of literature....I believe obstinately that  if I am able to write with truth about what has happened to me  this can help others....In this belief I have risked being indiscreet  and I have written occasionally of experiences which seem strange to me myself  and which I have not seen discussed else-where.\" So begins Stephen Spenders autobiography  widely acclaimed as the twentieth centurys greatest memoir.  Spender was one of his generations most celebrated poets  a writer living at the intersection of literature and politics in Europe between the two world wars. His portraits of his friendsVirginia Woolf  T. S. Eliot  W. H. Auden  W. B. Yeats  and Christopher Isherwoodrender a romantic world of literary genius. Spender uses a poets language to create an honest and tender exploration of amity and the many possibilities of love. First published in 1951  World Within World simultaneously shocked and bedazzled the literary establishment for its frank discussion of Eros in the modern world.  Out of print for several years  this Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by the critic John Bayley and an Afterword Spender wrote in 1994 describing his reaction to the charges that David Leavitt plagiarized this autobiography in a novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966529335349,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679640452","price":46.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679640455.jpg?v=1770566801","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/world-within-world-the-autobiography-of-stephen-spender-modern-library","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}