Charles Bernard Spencer (1909 – 1963) was an English poet, translator, and editor.
He was born in Madras, India and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice; at Oxford Stephen Spender, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Isaiah Berlinand There he edited the Personal Landscape magazine. Through other postings he wrote little.
He was married again in 1961, to Anne Marjoribanks by whom he had a son Piers in 1963. His Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose edited by Peter Robinson was published by Bloodaxe Books in February 2011.
Works
- Aegean Islands and Other Poems (1946)
- The Twist in the Plotting (1960)
- With Luck Lasting (1963)
- Collected Poems (1965) edited by Alan Ross
- Collected Poems (1981) edited by Roger Bowen
- Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose (2011) edited by Peter Robinson