Derek Stanford

For a period in the early 1950s he worked with Muriel Spark on several books, and was a supporter of hers (together with the eccentric poet Hugo Manning, a long-time friend), in the Poetry Society. Stanford described Spark's ousting in Inside the Forties. He is associated with the character Hector Bartlett in Muriel Spark's A Far Cry from Kensington (1988). Stanford died in 2008, aged 90, in Brighton. His widow is the poet Julie Whitby.

• Name — Derek Stanford • Honorific Suffix — FRSL • Born — 11 October 1918 • Died — 19 December 2008 • Place of death — Brighton, England • Occupation — Writer • Education — Latymer Upper School • Spouse — Julie Whitby

• A Romantic Miscellany (1946) editor with John Bayliss • The Freedom of Poetry: Studies in Contemporary Verse (1947) • Music for Statues (1948) • Tribute to Wordsworth: A Miscellany of Opinion for the Centenary of the Poet's Death (1950) editor with Muriel Spark • Christopher Fry: An Appreciation (1951) • Christopher Fry Album (1952) • Emily Brontë: her life and work (1953) with Muriel Spark • My Best Mary (letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) (1953) editor with Muriel Spark • Dylan Thomas: a literary study (1954) • Letters of John Henry Newman (1957) editor with Muriel Spark • Fenelon's Letters to Men and Women (1957) editor • Anne Brontë: Her Life And Work (1959) with Ada Harrison • John Betjeman – A Study (1961) • Muriel Spark: a Biographical and Critical Study (1963) • Concealment and Revelation in T. S. Eliot (1965) • Poets of the 'Nineties. A Biographical Anthology (1965) • Prose of the Century (1966) • The Body Of Love: An Anthology of Erotic Verse from Chaucer to Lawrence (1966) editor • Aubrey Beardsley's Erotic Universe (1967) • Short Stories of the 'Nineties: A Biographical Anthology (1968) editor • Movements in English poetry, 1900–1958 (1969) • Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis: a critical essay (1969) • Critics of the 'Nineties (1970) • Writing of the 'Nineties: From Wilde to Beerbohm (1971) • Pre-Raphaelite Writing (1973) editor • Three Poets of the Rhymers Club: Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, John Davidson (1974) • Inside the Forties: literary memoirs, 1937–1957 (1977) • The Memorare Sequence (1977) • The Weather Within (1978) • The Traveller Hears the Strange Machine: Selected Poems 1946–1979 (1980) • The Vision and Death of Aubrey Beardsley (1985)