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In England, the circumstances in which poets intervene in politics are special. In their study of Julian Bell’s and John Cornford’s tragically broken-off lives, Journey to the Frontier, Peter Stansky and William Abrahams inevitably devoted much space to explaining the family background and the personal psychological and intellectual problems which led these young men to anti-fascism and their deaths in Spain.
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© 1978 Stephen Spender
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Spender, S. (1978). Notes on Revolutionaries and Reactionaries. In: The Thirties and After. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04237-1_18
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