For the revised and enlarged edition of his collected poems - reissued to celebrate his 80th birthday - Stephen Spender has made considerable changes from the text of the original edition of 1955. He has included a number of recent and unpublished poems, discarded several others and recast and rewritten much of the work in the earlier collection. Among recent poems included are remembrances of Louis MacNiece, Igor Stravinsky and W.H.Auden. There are also some early poems based on Rilke, Lorca and Altolguirre and choruses from Sir Stephen's translation of Sophocles' Oedipus trilogy.
- ISBN10 0571136664
- ISBN13 9780571136667
- Publish Date 20 February 1989 (first published 18 November 1985)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 11 December 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English