Homage to Catalonia 1943. The closing phrase of the poem, "No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit", was later taken by George Woodcock for the title of his Governor General's Award-winning critical study of Orwell and his work, "The Crystal Spirit" (1966). Homage to Catalonia Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the shaping events on his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write, in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written
Spilling the Spanish Beans story of what had happened in Barcelona. From Barcelona Orwell was sent to Alcubierre on the Aragon Front. In the first part of the article Orwell argues that in the case of the Spanish Civil War, even more than pro-fascist newspapers like the "Daily Mail", left-wing papers such as the "News Chronicle" and "Daily Worker" had "prevented the British public from grasping the real nature of the struggle." Orwell describes the imprisoning of those whose opinions were too much to the left and that the people responsible for putting them there were the Communists: "The real struggle is between revolution