ABSTRACT The name Edward Marsh occasionally crops up in handbooks on English literature, where he is mentioned as the editor of the five volumes of Georgian Poetry that appeared from 1912 to 1922. Georgian poetry, however defined, has been decried for the best part of a century, and Marsh’s reputation among representatives of English Literature has been correspondingly lacklustre. This article presents a radically different view of Marsh, portraying him as the indefatigable promoter of a fresh and vigorous kind of verse that breathed new life into English poetry in the early twentieth century and gained a wide audience for it. A man whose editorial capabilities made poets compare his mind to a razor or a scalpel, he was infinitely generous with his time, his modest wealth and his influence as a top-level civil servant. Largely based on archival research into Marsh’s unpublished papers, this reappraisal of Edward Marsh puts him in the foreground of developments in modern English poetry.

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爱德华·马什与现代英语诗歌

摘要 Edward Marsh 的名字偶尔会出现在英国文学手册中，他被提及是 1912 年至 1922 年出版的五卷格鲁吉亚诗歌的编辑。世纪以来，马什在英国文学代表中的声誉也相应地黯淡无光。这篇文章提出了对马什的截然不同的看法，将他描绘成一种不屈不挠的新鲜活力诗歌的推动者，这种诗歌为 20 世纪初的英国诗歌注入了新的活力，并为之赢得了广泛的听众。他的编辑能力让诗人把他的思想比作剃刀或手术刀，他对自己的时间、微薄的财富和作为高级公务员的影响力都非常慷慨。