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1939 (as Delta from April 1938). One of those who assisted was Anaïs Nin; see n. 29 below. Orwell
had reviewed The Booster in New English Weekly in 1937.
10. A. E. Housman (1859–1936), classical scholar and poet. A Shropshire Lad was
published in 1896. The text printed in this essay is that of The Collected Poems (1939).
11. Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), a naturalist and writer, drew his inspiration from
rural England. William Henry Hudson (1841–1922), travel and fiction writer.
12. "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester," by Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), was published
twice in 1912, in Basileon and in Poetry Review.
13. Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887–1955) wrote novels associated with rural England,
especially Sussex.
14. John Masefield (1878–1967), poet and dramatist, also wrote about the war. The
Everlasting Mercy (1911) tells how a Quaker, Miss Bourne, saves the soul of the debauched Saul
Kane, to whom Orwell refers a few lines below.
15. Orwell quotes this stanza from Last Poems (1922) by A. E. Housman; see n. 10.
16. George Norman Douglas(s) (1868–1952), novelist and travel writer. In fact, much of
his small output of fiction was published after the outbreak of war in 1914, notably South Wind
(1917), considered shocking in its day.
17. John Squire (1884–1958), literary editor of The New Statesman, 1913–1919,
founded the monthly London Mercury (1919–1939), which he edited from 1919 to 1934. Philip
Gibbs (1877–1967), prolific novelist and journalist, also wrote much on national issues, including
the war, and was a war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Chronicle. Hugh
Walpole (1884–1941), popular novelist, was the author of Mr Perrin and Mr Traill (1911) and The
Herries Chronicle, in five volumes (1930–1940).
18. The reference to "eagles and of crumpets" is obscure. Possibly Orwell had in mind
Psalm 103, 5, in the version in The Book of Common Prayer: "Who satisfieth thy mouth with good
things: making thee young and lusty like an eagle."
novelist.
19. Told by an Idiot (1923), by (Dame Emilie) Rose Macaulay (1881–1958), a prolific
20. Of Human Bondage (1915), by W Somerset Maugham (1874–1965).
21. Louis MacNeice (1907–1963), a poet, dramatist, and critic.
22. See The Road to Wigan Pier.
23. The first line of "Poem No. 10" in The Magnetic Mountain (1933), by Cecil Day
Lewis (IC)04–1972).