Ebook {Epub PDF} The Temple by Stephen Spender

This novel by the young Stephen Spender was written as an experiment in but abandoned in draft and forgotten until rediscovered by a researcher. Believed to be autobiographical, it tells the story of a young English poet on vacation in Hamburg in and his response to the Weimar world. The Temple by Stephen Spender. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, , Stephen Spender Prize; Education Programmes; Support Us; Accessibility options. The Temple by the Stars, translated by Adeline Goh. Against the blissful starry night stands A temple which can be seen across the lands, Hundreds of feet high and dangerously tall It seems as if it is about to fall. I stand inside the sacred temple.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Temple by Stephen Spender (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! The Temple is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Stephen Spender, sometimes labelled a bildungsroman because of its explorations of youth and first love. It was written after Spender spent his summer vacation in Germany in and recounts his experiences there. It was not completed until the early s (after Spender had failed his finals at Oxford University in and moved to. I read Stephen Spender's The Temple many years ago, when it first came out. It is an absolutely unique work, in that he wrote part of it back in the early 30s when the storm clouds were forming over Germany -- and then finished and polished it in the 80s, once one could look back on the whole of the 30s and 40s with a more objective eye.

The Temple. by Stephen Spender. “ The Temple is a wonderfully immediate and truthful book, and no doubt this is the way it was in Germany and in the lives and thoughts of a significant circle; one can hear the sophisticated adolescent voices arguing far into the night. And The Temple is radiantly and ironically full of the concerns and hopes of youth, of shared literary ideals and ambitions.” –Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe. KIRKUS REVIEW. A welcome cult item, originally written by the poet in , put aside, sold to a university archive in the early 60's, and now resurrected in revised form. Spender's hero Paul leaves Oxford for a summer's vacation in Germany during the 20's, a time when the licentious Weimar Republic stood as something of a naughty playground. This novel by the young Stephen Spender was written as an experiment in but abandoned in draft and forgotten until rediscovered by a researcher. Believed to be autobiographical, it tells the story of a young English poet on vacation in Hamburg in and his response to the Weimar world.