Book contents
- A History of World War One Poetry
- A History of World War One Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Chapter 1 The Poetic Marketplace
- Chapter 2 Poetic Tradition and Innovation: Georgians and Their Networks
- Chapter 3 Poetic Avant-Garde: Modernism and Little Magazines
- Chapter 4 The Continental European Literary Scene
- Chapter 5 Poetic Form: Soundscapes
- Part II Nations and Voices
- Part III Poets
- Part IV
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - Poetic Tradition and Innovation: Georgians and Their Networks
from Part I - Literary Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2023
- A History of World War One Poetry
- A History of World War One Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Chapter 1 The Poetic Marketplace
- Chapter 2 Poetic Tradition and Innovation: Georgians and Their Networks
- Chapter 3 Poetic Avant-Garde: Modernism and Little Magazines
- Chapter 4 The Continental European Literary Scene
- Chapter 5 Poetic Form: Soundscapes
- Part II Nations and Voices
- Part III Poets
- Part IV
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter considers the network of poets orientated around the Georgian Poetry publications that appeared in a series from 1912 to 1922, edited by the influential literary and artistic champion Edward Marsh. It discusses the innovations advanced by contributing writers even as they consciously adhered to a lyric inheritance that stressed continuity over rupture. With some exceptions, it argues that these poets relied on a pastoral palate to articulate complex emotional and sensical realities while they contended – implicitly and, more rarely, explicitly – with the jarring physical and psychological assaults of the First World War. Finally, it addresses the ways in which the editors and established contributors used the publication as a platform to promote emerging and important literary voices, including the likes of Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg.
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- A History of World War One Poetry , pp. 35 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023