According to biographer D. J. Taylor, the young Orwell displayed 'an enthusiasm for poetry that in [his] formative years seems to have been as least as strong as any desire to write fiction'. Orwell's poetry is not among his best known – or most highly praised – work, but nonetheless shares similar concerns to (and displays the dry sense of humour present in) his prose. Mere foothills in the range of Orwell's work perhaps – but building up to the summits later scaled.
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Awake young men of England
The Italian soldier shook my hand
Kitchener
Romance
Sometimes in the middle autumn days
A Dressed Man
A Little Poem
The Pagan
The Lesser Evil
Ironic Poem about Prostitution
Summer-like for an instant
On a Ruined Farm near the His Master's Voice Gramophone Factory
George Orwell war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Journalist, der vor allem durch seine politischen Essays und Romane wie "1984" und "Farm der Tiere" bekannt wurde.View all by George Orwell
