A generation as yet unscarred by war
MARSH, Edward (editor). Georgian Poetry 1911-1912. London: The Poetry Bookshop [1912].
8vo. Original grey cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, top-edge gilt; pp. [8], 197, [1], untrimmed and partly unopened; occasional very light spotting, contemporary owner's inscription to ffep ('B.W. with love from A.M.A. Christmas 1912'), generally very good.
First edition of the first volume of Georgian Poetry, a series of five anthologies that marked a new, post-Romantic wave in English poetry 'putting on a new strength and beauty' (Prefatory Note).
The poets in this volume represent some of the great names of a generation that was not yet scarred by the war to come - Rupert Brooke, Walter de la Mare, D.H. Lawrence, John Masefield, and W.H. Davies.
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