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Stephen Spender
English
Poet
Born:
Feb 28
,
1909
Died:
Jul 16
,
1995
Blocking
Church
Critic
Great
Religion
Stands
Related authors:
Alexander Pope
Alfred Lord Tennyson
John Keats
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Robert Browning
William Blake
William Wordsworth
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
Stephen Spender
Dreams
Son
Mind
Top
High
Windy
Horse
Wishes
Course
Rode
Child
Rhetoric
Whipped
Your
Lashes
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Stephen Spender
Justice
Criticism
Tyrannical
Critic
Like
Midwife
Certain
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
Stephen Spender
You
Master
Rich
Chaos
Poem
Read
Understand
Formal
Little
Then
Meanings
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