STEPHEN SPENDER speaks about the distinction he makes between the ' contemporary ' and the ' modern ' writer. The contemporary writer accepts the forces and the values of today: the modern does not.
1: Contemporaries and Moderns
The ' contemporaries ' in Stephen Spender's view are writers such as Shaw, Bennett, and Wells a generation ago, and C. P. Snow, Kingsley Amis, and John Osborne today. As ' moderns ' he considers James Joyce , D. H. Lawrence , and Virginia Woolf. Second talk October 10