The 30s and 40s

W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

"Who stands, the crux left of the watershed" (1927)
"It is time for the destruction of error" (1929)
"Spain" (1937)
"September 1, 1939" 


George Orwell (1903-1950) 
  Animal Farm (1945)
"Inside the Whale" (1940)
"Politics and the English Language" (1946, 1947)
"Why I Write" (1947)