Body of lyrical poetry produced in Britain in the early 20th century.
Desiring to make new poetry more accessible to the public,
containing works by Robert Graves , Walter de la Mare , Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), and others
called Georgian Poetry (1912–22). "Georgian" was meant to suggest the opening of a new poetic age with the accession in 1910 of {{link=George">George V ; however, much of the Georgians' work was conventional, and the name came to refer to backward-looking literature rooted in its time.