He strongly objected to the contemporary Persian literary influences, and called for the revival of Shota Rustaveli's traditions of Georgian poetry.
12.
Abercrombie also contributed to " Georgian Poetry " and several of his verse plays appeared in " New Numbers " ( 1914 ).
13.
His next poetic collection " Cr�ne aux fleurs artistiques " ( 1919 ) made him the leader of Georgian poetry for several decades to come.
14.
Edward Marsh, the group's artistic and literary patron, edited the five volumes of " Georgian Poetry " which were published by Harold Monro.
15.
Being member of the symbolistic order Blue horns ( from 1918 ) he, like his colleagues, was engaged in the technical improvement of the Georgian poetry.
16.
His own " Selections from Modern Poets " anthology series, launched in 1921, became definitive of the conservative style of " Georgian poetry ".
17.
For English poetry, the Georgian poetry series was trend-setting; it showed the potential success of publishing an identifiable group of younger poets marked out as a'generation '.
18.
He was a close friend of Walter de la Mare from 1907, who lobbied hard with Edward Marsh to get Freeman into the " Georgian Poetry " series; with eventual success.
19.
Smith was born in Montreal, but lived in England from 1918 to 1920, where he " studied for the Georgian poetry, and read much in the recent war poets and the Imagists ."
20.
The story is mentioned and admired virtually in all classical pieces of medieval and early modern Georgian literature, including in the poem by Shota Rustaveli which is a crowning merit of the medieval Georgian poetry.
