The Georgian Poets

The gentle, rural English poets of the early twentieth century — Edward Thomas, Brooke, de la Mare, and Masefield, on the eve of the modern.

The English countryside, just before the deluge

In this collection

• Old Bob White
• I will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines
• The Bone that has no Marrow
• Good Night
• That Many Good Gifts are Bestowed Upon those who Communicate Devoutly
• Climatic Sorcery
• Occhi, Piangete; Accompagnate Il Core
• The Rose and the Amaranth
• Dawn-Joy
• The House of the Titans and other Poems
• Hon. Henry Bennett
• Hangman's Oak
• Reasons
• Drinking-Song
• To Mr. Murray (for Oxford and for Waldegrave)
• Lord Bacon. Written as a Joke and Ascribed to a very Practical Business Man, Amos J. Walker
• Knight Aagen and Maiden Else
• That we Ought to Lay Open our Necessities to Christ and to Require his Grace
• A Dream
• It Rains
• To the Sayers of Words
• The Return of Ulysses
• Conscience
• The Pessimist

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