The object of 'Georgian Poetry' 1911-1912 was to give a convenient
survey of the work published within two years by some poets of the newer
generation. The book was welcomed; and perhaps, even in a time like
this, those whom it interested may care to have a corresponding volume
for the three years which have since passed.
Two of the poets--I think the youngest, and certainly not the least
gifted--are dead. Rupert Brooke, who seemed to have everything that is
worth having, died last April in the service of his country. James Elroy
Flecker, to whom life and death were less generous, died in January
after a long and disabling illness.
A few of the contributors to the former volume are not represented in
this one, either because they have published nothing which comes within
its scope, or because they belong in fact to an earlier poetic
generation, and their inclusion must be allowed to have been an
anachronism. Two names are added.
The alphabetical arrangement of the writers has been modified in order
to recognize the honour which Mr Gordon Bottomley has done to the book
by allowing his play to be first published here.
My thanks for permission to print the poems are due to Messrs Constable,
Duckworth, Heinemann, Herbert Jenkins, Macmillan, Elkin Mathews,
Methuen, Martin Seeker, and Sidgwick and Jackson; and to the Editors of
'Country Life', the 'English Review, Flying Fame, New Numbers', the 'New
Statesman', and the 'Westminster Gazette'.