Beskrivelse
Georgian’ poetry has two meanings: poetry of Britain and Ireland written in the period 1910-1929; and poetry of a movement free of anxiety, self-doubt, self-hate, a movement that values “natural simplicity, emotional warmth, and moral innocence” as the introduction by James Reeves phrases it, and is set more in the countryside than in cities. So although Eliot, Pound and so on were increasingly influential in this period, they are not Georgian poets. ‘Georgian’ includes the period and the poetry of the First World War. The twenty poets included in this volume were born between 1859 (A.E. Housman) and 1896 (Edmund Blunden); five of them (Edward Thomas, James Elroy Flecker, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen and Charles Sorley) died between 1915 and 1918; the others lived on for decades afterwards, some having survived the war, some having been too old for it.
