Stephen Spender, along with his friends W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and C. Day Lewis, rose to prominence in the 1930s, writing powerfully of the fear and paranoia of a continent heading towards war. By the time of his death in 1995 he had established a distinguished reputation as a poet, critic, editor and translator. This <i>New Collected Poems</i>, edited by Michael Brett, gathers seven decades of verse from <i>Poems</i> (1933) to <i>Dolphins</i> (1994) and the late uncollected work. Reordering the thematic principle of the 1985 <i>Collected Poems</i>, this edition returns to a book-by-book chronology and allows the reader to experience, for the first time, the full development and range of his career.