Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR
my mind to clear through all this rubbish, but I
want your help. Now, I'm going to give a series of
lectures on modern art (I'm sending you the first,
which I gave in great style. I was asked whether
the Futurists exhibited at the Royal Academy).
But I want to make the lectures interesting and
intelligible by reproductions or slides. Now, I
wonder whether you have reproductions which you
could lend me till I returned or was finished with
them. I want to talk about John, Cezanne, Van
Gogh, Innes, the early Picasso (not the cubistic
one), Spencer, Gertler, Lamb, Puvis de Chavannes,
Degas. A book of reproductions of the P.-
Impressionists would do, and I could get them
transferred on slides. I hope this would not put
you to any great trouble, but if you could manage
to do it you don't know how you would help me.
Stanley gave me a little
job to paint two babies,
which helped me to pay my way for a bit. I
expect to get pupils and kick up a row with my
lectures. But nobody seems to have money here,
and not an ounce of interest in Art. The climate's
tine, but the Sun is a very changeable creature and
I can't come to any sort of understanding with
this golden beast. He pretends to keep quiet for
half an hour, and just as I think, ' Now I've got it, 1
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