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Horizon was the forerunner of the equally successful Anglo-American Encounter, the British end of which [Stephen Spender] looked after from 1953 onward, although he did not always see eye to eye with his American co-editors Irving Kristol and Melvin Lasky. When Encounter began to run a deficit, the offer of assistance from Cecil King of the Daily Mirror was welcomed, even though Spender was warned that King had connections with the CIA.
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The Straight Guy
A bisexual ex-communist who became entangled with the CIA, Stephen Spender is remembered today more for his colourful life than his poetry. And yet his overriding characteristics, both as a man and a poet, were charming simplicity and directness. By JOHN BAYLEY
The straight guy Stephen Spender John Sutherland Viking, 627pp, £25The success of this biograp...See the full content of this document
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