New Country

New Country,
an anthology of prose and verse published 1933 , edited by M. Roberts , with contributions by Auden , Spender , Day-Lewis , Empson , Isherwood , Upward , and R. Warner . Its tone was highly political, verging on the revolutionary: Roberts wrote in his preface, ‘It is time that those who would conserve something which is still valuable in England began to see that only a revolution can save their standards.’ A collection with many of the same contributors, New Signatures, also edited by Roberts, had appeared in 1932 .