Georgian

A poetic movement in England during the reign of George V (1910–1936) that included poets such as Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, and Walter de la Mare.

Hilaire Belloc is considered one of the most controversial and accomplished men of letters of early 20th-century England. An author whose writings continue to draw either the deep admiration or bitter contempt...

Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, English poet and playwright Gordon Bottomley began working as a bank clerk at the age of 16. At 18, he contracted tuberculosis, recurrences of which limited his ability to work...

Poet and literary critic Lascelles Abercrombie was born at Ashton upon Mersey, near Manchester, England. He was educated at Malvern College and Owens (now Victoria University of Manchester) and worked as a...

Poet and writer William Henry Davies was born in Newport, Wales. His father died when he was three years old, and after his mother’s subsequent remarriage, Davies was raised by his grandparents. He attended...

English poet and playwright John Drinkwater was born in London. At age 15, he left school to work as a junior clerk for an insurance company in Nottingham. In his poetry, he often related ephemeral imagery...

Harold Monro was born in Brussels to Scottish parents. His father and brother died early in his life, losses that would shape his outlook and may account for the melancholic tone of much of his poetry. But...

English poet and biographer Peter Quennell was born in Kent to an intellectual and artistic family; his parents wrote the children’s history series A History of Everyday Things in England (1918). He attended...

British novelist, poet, and gardener Victoria Mary Sackville-West was raised at her family’s ancestral estate, Knole, in Kent. In her poetry, she often engaged themes of natural life and romantic love. She...

English poet John Collings Squire was born in Plymouth, Devonshire. He earned a degree in history from St. John’s College, Cambridge. While there, he became interested in politics, attempting a run for Parliament...

Irish poet James Stephens was born in Dublin to a working-class family. After his father’s death and his mother’s remarriage, he was sent to the Meath Protestant Industrial School for Boys. In 1896, he left...

English poet, playwright, and designer Thomas Sturge Moore was born in Hastings, Sussex, into an intellectual family. His brother was G.E. Moore, the philosopher. As a student at Croydon Art School and Lambeth...

In the late 19th and early 20th century, English and American poetry completely broke new ground. With the advent of Modernism, writers such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams advanced ...

Poet and playwright Robert Nichols was born into a prestigious upper-class family from Essex. He studied at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford. He left Oxford at the outbreak of World War I and...

Edmund Charles Blunden was a prolific literary critic, journalist, travel writer, and author of poetry and prose. His career was shaped by his admiration of the English countryside, his lifelong participation...

British poet John Edward Masefield was born in Herefordshire. He studied at Warwick School before training as a merchant seaman. In 1895, he deserted his ship in New York City and worked there in a carpet ...

Siegfried Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about World War I, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Sassoon...

Isaac Rosenberg may be remembered as an Anglo-Jewish war poet, but his poetry stretches beyond those narrow categories. Since Rosenberg was only 28 when he died, most critics have tended to treat his corpus...

Few writers have provoked as much excessive praise and scornful condemnation as English poet Rupert Brooke. Handsome, charming, and talented, Brooke was a national hero even before his death in 1915 at the...

The daughter of one of King George III’s courtiers, English poet Catherine Maria Fanshawe grew up in Chipstead, Surrey. Her household encouraged her interests in poetry and art, though poor health led her ...