Lascelles abercrombie biography definition

British poet (1881–1938)

Lascelles Abercrombie, FBA (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938)^[1] was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".

Lascelles abercrombie biography definition

After the First World War he worked as a professor of English literature in a number of English universities, writing principally on the theory of literature.

Biography

Abercrombie was born in Ashton upon Mersey, Sale, Cheshire.^[2] He was educated at Malvern College,^[3] and at Owens College, Manchester.^[1]

Before the First World War, he lived for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community of poets, including Robert Frost, and often visited by Rupert Brooke, and Edward Thomas.

The Dymock poets were included among the "Georgian poets", and Abercrombie's poetry was included in four of the five volumes of Georgian Poetry (edited by Edward Marsh, 1912–1922). During the pre-War years, he earned his living reviewing books, and started his poet