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From the NS archive: Heroes in Spain

1 May 1937: Were the foreign fighters who flocked to the Spanish Civil War noble or just more victims of the conflict?

By Stephen Spender

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From the NS archive: Reflections on the literary life

12 August 1950: Gradually I came to realise that the reviews that a writer receives are less his business…

By Stephen Spender

From the NS archive: Cobwebs on Hardy

16 May 1942: Would Thomas Hardy have been one of the great English poets?

By Stephen Spender

From the NS archive: Entente Fluviale

5 January 1973: The impressionists in London's Hayward Gallery.

By Stephen Spender

From the NS archive: Graves Supérieur

21 September 1940: Stephen Spender reviews Robert Graves, whose poems he declares “always remarkable, often beautiful”, though “warped and…

By Stephen Spender

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