30 NOVEMBER 1985, page 30

Spender The Man

Rupert Christiansen JOURNALS 1939-1983 by Stephen Spender Faber, £15 C ocoa, I should think', muttered Auden to Robert Craft, an hearing Stra- vinsky ask Stephen Spender what......

Spender The Poet

Elizabeth Jennings COLLECTED POEMS 1928-1985 by Stephen Spender Faber, £12.50, £4.95 I have always deplored the literary habit which makes some people hang tags saying 'out of......