1912-1922
A critical miscellany arranged and introduced by George MacBeth
Including poetry and criticism by LasceMes Abercrombie
Gordon Bottomley. Rupert Brooke W. H. Davies , Walter de la Mare T. S. Eliot , James Elroy Flecker Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Sir Edmund Gosse. Geoffrey Grigson Fredegond Shove , Philip Larkin Edward Marsh , John Masefield
Wilfred Owen , Francis Brett Young
Read by Hugh Dickson , Gary Watson and Alan Wheatley
Mr. MacBeth believes that the time is ripe for a hard look at the traditional rejection of Georgian poetry as a body of insipid and outmoded work. He tries to unearth the main guiding myths of the Georgians and to assess how far these were modified by the cathartic experience of the Great War.