Which group of poets is known as the Georgian Poets?

1. AAlfred Noyes, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Davies, W. W. Gibson
2. BRupert Brooke, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, James Elroy Flecker
3. CJohn Masefield, Roy Campbell, Robert Graves, Dylan Thomas
4. DW. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence

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Correct answer: B. Rupert Brooke, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, James Elroy Flecker

Explanation

These four all appeared in Edward Marsh's anthologies Georgian Poetry (1912–22), which favoured plain diction and rural subjects. Each other group includes a poet outside the movement, such as Yeats, Eliot or Dylan Thomas.