Stephen Spender: Poet in Crisis by H. B. Kulkarni (Blackie & Son Ltd., 1970) is a critical study of the English poet Stephen Spender, examining his life, works, and the tensions between his political commitments and poetic vision. The book explores Spender’s role in the literary movements of the 1930s, his association with contemporaries like W. H. Auden, and the crises of conscience and creativity that shaped his poetry.