Georgian poets

Georgian poetry was a school of poetry that was very popular in England in the 1910s and 1920s. Its main inspiration was the work of A. E. Housman and Rupert Brooke. Many leading poets fought in the First World War; several of them, including Rupert Brooke, were killed, weakening the movement. Nearly all the Georgian poets were British or Irish, and the movement had little impact in the USA except through the mutual influence of Robert Frost and the other "Dymock Poets" (see below).

Some Georgian poets, notably Robert Graves, later adopted a different style and repudiated their Georgian poems.

Georgian poets include:

• Lascelles Abercrombie, 1881–1938
• Martin Armstrong, 1882–1974
• Herbert Asquith, 1881–1947
• Hilaire Belloc, 1870–1953
• Laurence Binyon, 1869–1943
• Edmund Blunden, 1896–1974
• Gordon Bottomley, 1874–1948
• Rupert Brooke, 1887–1915
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874–1936
• Padraic Colum, 1881–1972
• Frances Cornford, 1886–1960
• William Henry Davies, 1871–1940
• Walter de la Mare, 1873–1956
• John Drinkwater, 1882–1937
• Eleanor Farjeon, 1881–1965
• James Elroy Flecker, 1884–1915
• John Freeman, 1880–1929
• Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, 1878–1962
• Louis Golding, 1895–1958
• Robert Graves, 1895–1985
• Julian Grenfell, 1888–1915
• Ivor Gurney, 1890–1937
• Ralph Hodgson, 1871–1962
• Alfred Edward Housman, 1859–1936
• Rose Macaulay, 1881–1958
• John Masefield, 1878–1967
• Harold Monro, 1879–1932
• Thomas Sturge Moore, 1870–1944
• Robert Nichols, 1893–1944
• Alfred Noyes, 1880–1958
• Wilfred Owen, 1893–1918
• John Dynham Cornish Pellow, 1890–1960
• Victoria Sackville-West, 1892–1962
• Siegfried Sassoon, 1886–1967
• Edward Shanks, 1892–1953
• Charles Sorley, 1895–1915
• John Collings Squire, 1884–1958
• James Stephens, 1882–1950
• Edward Thomas, 1878–1917
• Walter James Redfern Turner, 1889–1946
• Dorothy Wellesley, 1889–1956
• Andrew Young, 1885–1971

The "Dymock Poets"

Six poets are referred to as the Dymock Poets. Of these, five are Georgians, and one is an American, Robert Frost. The poets are:

• Lascelles Abercrombie
• Rupert Brooke
• John Drinkwater
• Robert Frost, 1874–1963
• Wilfred Gibson
• Edward Thomas

Anthologies

Anthologies consisting mainly of Georgian poetry include:

• Georgian Poetry 1911–12 ed. Edward Marsh
• Georgian Poetry 1913–15 ed. Edward Marsh
• Georgian Poetry 1916–17 ed. Edward Marsh
• Georgian Poetry 1918–19 ed. Edward Marsh
• Georgian Poetry 1920–22 ed. Edward Marsh

• Shorter Lyrics of the Twentieth Century, 1900 to 1922 (1922) ed. William Henry Davies

• Selections from Modern Poets (1921) ed. J. C. Squire
• Selections from Modern Poets, Second Series (1924) ed. J. C. Squire
• Selections from Modern Poets, Complete edition (1927) ed. J. C. Squire [combines both volumes]
  • (There was also a Third Series with the title Younger Poets of Today [1932], but it mostly included non-Georgian poetry)

• Georgian Poetry (1962) ed. James Reeves