Georgian Poetry

This anthology gathers a wide sweep of early twentieth-century Georgian poetry, bringing together notable voices such as Lascelles Abercrombie, Walter de la Mare, D. H. Lawrence, Robert Graves, and others in a deliberately varied selection. Framed by an editor who defends his choices as personal rather than authoritative, the volume seeks poetry that unites form, feeling, and craftsmanship, and offers readers a vivid portrait of a movement searching for beauty and emotional honesty in a changing modern age. Across its pages, nature, labor, memory, and desire are rendered with striking freshness. Spring in "Ryton Firs," the flight of buzzards, the making of honey, and the small dramas of rural life all become occasions for wonder, humor, and tenderness. Miss Thompson's comic shopping expedition, the escape of a pig, the giant puffball, and the work of almswomen and a boy fishing for perch reveal the collection's affection for ordinary lives and living things. Other poems turn darker and more inward, exploring aging, transformation, haunting memory, love, loss, psychological struggle, and the uneasy border between the inner self and the visible world. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.