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| Graham Sutherland Pastoral 1930 etching Tate Gallery |
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| Leonard Brammer The Two Ovens 1931 ink and watercolor on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Stanley Spencer Terry's Lane, Cookham ca. 1932 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
from THE ESTHETIC PROBLEM ENTIRE
First you sing it. Stand there, start it now;
When you have finished you may step down and bow.
Second, you draw it. I wish you better luck;
The grade you undertake is hard to make.
Third, you carve it. That is a little more
Clear and plain, still the result is poor.
Fourth, I will try to say it, even though
I fail, here goes: I have failed; it had to be so.
– Merrill Moore (1932)
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| Paul Nash Harbour and Room 1932-36 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Paul Nash Equivalents for the Megaliths 1935 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| William Roberts Playground (The Gutter) 1934-35 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| William Roberts Skipping (The Gutter) 1934-35 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
from THE GONE
We are gone, no one remembers the gone
After the first proud legend of their going.
Oh we are legion who have smiled and sped
From one place to another.
They will think, over an old book yellowing,
"Fellow minds who are not here any more, the laughter
Does not tinkle between your words after you go,
You, the speakers."
– Eunice Clark (1935)
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| James Bateman Commotion in the Cattle Ring 1935 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| David Gascoyne Perseus and Andromeda 1936 paper collage Tate Gallery |
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| Charles Mahoney Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden ca. 1936 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Clive Branson Selling the Daily Worker outside Projectile Engineering Works 1937 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
from DUST AND THE GLORY
On a low Lorrainian knoll a leaning peasant sinking a pit
Meets rotted rock and a slab.
The slab cracks and is split, the old grave opened.
His spade strikes iron and keenly rings.
Out of the earth he picks an ancient sword,
Hiltless with rust and the blade a long double curve,
Steel of no Roman or Teuton king,
But metal struck in the sleeping East and lost in the raids.
He turns it awhile in the thick hands,
His thumb stretching the eaten edge, and throws it aside.
The brown strip winks in the light and is sunk;
Winks once in a thousand years, in the sun and the singing air,
And is lost again in the ground.
– William Everson (1937)
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| Clive Branson Portrait of a Worker ca. 1930 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Edward Wolfe Laugharne Castle ca. 1937-38 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Graham Sutherland Entrance to a Lane 1939 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
Poems from the archives of Poetry (Chicago)