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| Mary Potter Golden Kipper 1939 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Marie Louise von Motesiczky Still Life with Sheep 1938 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| William Nicholson Silver 1938 oil on panel Tate Gallery |
OLD BOOKS
Sappho's dark hyacinth,
Prospero with his rod,
Achilles in his tent,
Saint Francis praising God:
Hold fast, hold fast to these,
The sturdy and the few
That are more lovely than your love,
More actual than you.
– Lindley Williams Hubbell (1938)
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| Claude Rogers Mrs Richard Chilver 1937-38 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Glyn Philpot Mrs Gerard Simpson 1937 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| James Ensor Effect of Light 1935 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
from AN ELEGY FOR D.H. LAWRENCE
Greep, greep, greep the cricket
chants where the snake
with agate eyes leaned to the water.
Sorrow to the young
that Lawrence has passed
unwanted from England.
And in the gardens forsythia
and in the woods
now the crinkled spice-bush
in flower.
– William Carlos Williams (1935)
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| Eliot Hodgkin October 1935 oil on panel Tate Gallery |
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| Henry Lamb The Artist's Wife 1933 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
from APOLLO AT DELPHI
Now I know
there is no before
nor after,
that all escape lies in the perfect contour . . .
– H.D. (1933)
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| Tristram Hillier Composition 1933 (Interior) 1933 oil on panel Tate Gallery |
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| William Ratcliffe The Artist's Room, Letchworth ca. 1932 oil on paper Tate Gallery |
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| Ivon Hitchens Autumn Composition - Flowers on a Table 1932 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Vanessa Bell Pheasants 1931 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
HUSK
Here is the husk of my thoughts, as brittle
As last year's sheaves, meaning as little
As long dried nut-shells stripped of the kernel
Or yesterday's promises of the eternal.
Here is the crisp word, whose dust will linger
After you crush it between thumb and finger.
Here is a funeral – light slender taper
And watch by the corpse inscribed on my paper.
– Frances Jennings (1931)
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| Dod Procter Kitchen at Myrtle Cottage ca. 1930-35 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Walter Russell Cordelia ca. 1930 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
Poems from the archives of Poetry (Chicago)