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Spring 1951 • Vol. XIII No. 2 • My Credo: A Symposium of Critics (Continued) |

VIII. On the Function of Criticism

By Stephen Spender

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An English poet, novelist and essayist, Stephen Spender (1909-1995) came to prominence in the 1930s alongside W. H. Auden and others. He was appointed the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965 and focused his work on themes of social justice.

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