Abstract
This chapter talks about the poet Stefan George and democracy. George was a commanding figure in modern German culture in the first half of the turbulent twentieth century. Democracy was not a word used in George?s poetry. He rejected the then commanding concepts of modernism, materialism, and militarism. George also verbally criticized the ideas of progress and democracy, the decay of civilization, man?s domination of nature, and the levelling tendencies in cultural politics. The ?George Circle? was closely united by Socratic ideals of life and art in its broadest sense, wedded to the concept of a new society, and of an intellectual and aesthetic elite. ?Stefan George and democracy?, remains a crucial episode not only in German but also in European intellectual, cultural and political history. Keywords: Stefan George; democracy; German culture; poetry; George Circle
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