I, too, have the James Reeves anthology but am away from home and can't remember exactly which poets are included nor how Reeves defines or describes the "group". Looking at the Wikipedia article on Georgian Poetry, I see that the term was "was the title of a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the early years of the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom." The list of names in these anthologies (five in all) is interesting, including, for example, D.H. Lawrence (present in four out of the five anthologies), Robert Graves, and many of the major First World War poets (Rosenberg, Blunden, Sassoon), with the significant exceptions of Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas. Of course, nobody would dream of describing Lawrence today as a "Georgian poet" but it seems he was felt to belong at the time - and he himself didn't mind being included along with Drinkwater, Gibson and Abercrombie (I imagine the money helped).
Would anybody care to have a go at defining the Georgians? And would the definition include Thomas? And Frost?
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