Poems for Spain

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cover of "Poems for Spain"

Source: Bruce Peel Library

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/poems-for-spain-edited-by-stephen-spender-and…

Poems for Spain

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John Lehmann

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Poems written and translated by English writers about the Spanish Civil War. Auden is among them and the poems are generally of a high quality. The justification for the book is that 'Poets and poetry have played a considerable part in the Spanish War, because to many people the struggle of the Republicans has seemed a struggle for the conditions without which the writing and reading poetry are almost impossible in modern society' (7).