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The Georgian poets were, by the strictest definition, those whose works appeared in a series of 5 anthologies named Georgian Poetry, published by Harold Monro and edited by Edward Marsh. In the broadest sense, it includes English poets who wrote formalist poetry (poetry in verse) during the 1910s and 1920s.

The debut volume of Georgian Poetry 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. Common features of poems in these publications were romanticism , sentimentality and hedonism .

Later critics have attempted to expand the definition of the term as a description of poetic technique, thereby including some new names or excluding some old ones. Henry Newbolt, writing in the early 1930s, estimated that there were at least 1,000 active British poets: the vast majority of those would be recognizably 'Georgian', making the pool of names close to unfathomable.

See also

• List of British poets

References

• Ross, Robert H. The Georgian Revolt, 1910-1922: Rise and fall of a poetic ideal, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965. ISBN 0-571-08061-8

External links

• Georgian Poetry 1911-12
• Georgian Poetry 1913-15
• Georgian Poetry 1916-17
• Georgian Poetry 1918-19
• Georgian Poetry 1920-22

About

• Georgianism at the Poetry Foundation
• Georgian Poetry at the Encyclopædia Britannica
• What is Georgian Poetry? at eNotes
• Georgian Poetry at Poem Analysis