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Georgian poetry was a school of poetry that was very popular in England in the 1910s and 1920s. Its main inspiration was the work of A. E. Housman and Rupert Brooke. Many leading poets fought in the First World War; several of them, including Rupert Brooke, were killed, weakening the movement. Nearly all the Georgian poets were British or Irish, and the movement had little impact in the USA except through the mutual influence of Robert Frost and the other "Dymock Poets" (see below).

Some Georgian poets, notably Robert Graves, later adopted a different style and repudiated their Georgian poems.

Georgian poets include:

The "Dymock Poets"

Six poets are referred to as the Dymock Poets. Of these, five are Georgians, and one is an American, Robert Frost. The poets are:

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