POETIC DICTION IN GEORGIAN POETRY

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To be Georgian in 1912-1915….connoted several things. It meant to be modern ,in the sense that Georgian shared with the most pre-war poets the prevailing spiritual euphoria and the confidence that poetry was being infused with a new, vital release of creative energy it means also to be anti-Victorian ,to write poetry which , in tone ,form and diction, was free from both de fin siecle weariness and Victorian painted adjectives.
(Marsh in Ross,p.33)

As this suggests, the term describes primarily a certain temper, or set of mind, and not (strictly speaking) a poetic movement school. Edward Marsh introduced the first two volumes of the Georgian poetry which suggests, in the beginning at least, "Georgianism was not a poetic movement at all" .Through 1915 the Georgian poets were a group rather than a movement. By his brief preface to the first volume of Georgian poetry , written in 1912 , Edward Marsh stated that poetry in 1912 was beginning to strike out on new an exciting paths ; moreover he suggested that the new age would be somehow more vital , more stimulating more modern than the Edwardian Era which had preceded