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
George Orwell bibliography but he did publish several poems that have survived, including many written during his school days: In October 2015 Finlay Publisher, for The Orwell Society, published "George Orwell: The Complete Poetry", compiled and presented by Dione Venables. In addition to the pamphlets "British Pamphleteers Volume 1: From the 16th Century the 18th Century" and "Talking to India, by E. M. Forster, Richie Calder, Cedric Dover, Hsiao Ch'ien and Others: A Selection of English Language Broadcasts to India", Orwell edited two newspapers during his Eton years—"College Days"/"The Colleger" (1917) and "Election Times" (1917–1921). While working for the BBC, he collected six