0. INTRODUCTION (to the third collective paper)

We are going to talk about:
-    Important characteristics of the Romanticism and Dark Romanticism.
-    Darkness in the city in several times:
    - Georgians
    - WWI poetry
    - Modernism
    - Postmodernism
-    A little conclusion about the whole work.

5. Georgians:

'Georgian' is largely a negative term, used to describe formally traditional verse of the early twentieth century that concentrates mainly on rural themes, and allegedly lacks both ambition and inspiration. Their poetry can best be read as a creditable but not entirely successful attempt to maintain Romantic, liberal and humanistic traditions when more radically experimental writers were forsaking these for the values of Modernism. In their time the Georgians were seen as practising a plain, sharp and freshly colloquial poetry, and challenging the sonorous verse of Edwardian poets. By the 1930s, the Georgian period was seen as a tired interlude before the accession of Yeats, Eliot and Pound.
The image of the Georgian poet as a facile writer of bland, throwaway anthology lyrics stands in need of revision. Much Georgian material is in fact marked by a haunting elegiac quality, a sombre awareness of a changing England, and a firm connection with social realities such as poverty, ugliness and unrest. Furthermore, the Georgians conducted a brave effort to reanimate the verse drama. Some poets were also exponents of the narrative poem. Many were consummate reviewers, anthologists and prose writers, and their books on literary, cultural and personal matters can provide wider perspectives in which to view their poetry.
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    A variety of lyrical poetry produced in the early 20th century by an assortment of British poets... Brooke and Sir Edward Marsh, wishing to make new poetry accessible to a wider public planned a series of anthologies. To this series they applied the name "Georgian" to suggest the opening of a new poetic age with the accession in 1910 of George V. Five volumes of Georgian Poetry, edited by Marsh, were published between 1912 and 1922. The real gifts of Brooke, Davies, de la Mare, Blunden, and Hodgson should not be overlooked, but, taken as a whole, much of the Georgians' work was lifeless. It took inspiration from the countryside and nature, and in the hands of less gifted poets, the resulting poetry was diluted and middlebrow conventional verse of late Romantic character. "Georgian" came to be a pejorative term, used in a sense not intended by its progenitors: rooted in its period and looking backward rather than forward.
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