The TES - Education Jobs, Teaching Resources, Magazine & Forums. Store.aqa.org.uk/admin/crf_pdf/AQA-ENG02-W-CRF-12.PDF. GEORGIAN POETS: RUPERT BROOKE (THE SOLDIER) The poetry which was popular before the outbreak of war has become known as 'Georgian Poetry', and the main poets are known as 'Georgian Poets'. These were poets named after the reign of King George V who was crowned in 1910. The first volume of Georgian Poetry appeared in 1912, proposed by Rupert Brooke.
Four more volumes were published - the last in 1922 - edited by Sir Edward Marsh. Pre-war Georgian poetry is typified as dreamy and romantic and escapist in comparison with the harshness of war described by the realists. The most enduring Georgian is James Elroy Flecker who introduced orientalism into his verse and died young; though the most famous is, still, probably, Rupert Brooke. The forgotten Georgians are those who continued in the vein of late-Romantic picturesque descriptions of countryside. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was the son of a schoolmaster at Rugby. Of mice and men.