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Spender, Sir Stephen
(Sir Ste|phen Spen|der)
Pronunciation:
/ˈspɛndə/
(
1909–95
)
, English poet and critic. In his critical work
The Destructive Element
(1935) Spender defended the importance of political subject matter in literature.
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