Georgian poets
The
Georgian poets were, by the strictest definition, those whose works appeared in a series of five anthologies named
Georgian Poetry, published by
Harold Monro and edited by
Edward Marsh. The first volume contained poems written in
1911 and
1912. The poets included
Edmund Blunden,
Rupert Brooke,
Robert Graves,
D. H. Lawrence,
Walter de la Mare and
Siegfried Sassoon.
The period of publication was sandwiched between the Victorian era, with its strict classicism, and Modernism, with its strident rejection of pure aestheticism. The common features of the poems in these publications were romanticism, sentimentality and hedonism.
Later critics have attempted to revise the definition of the term as a description of poetic style, thereby including some new names or excluding some old ones.
Books
- Georgian Revolt: Rise and Fall of a Poetic Ideal, 1910-22 by Robert H Ross ISBN 0571080618