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Lascelles Abercrombie
1881–1938
A leading voice among the Georgian poets, he combined rich, thoughtful verse with a lifelong interest in how literature works. His career also took him into university teaching, where he became known as an influential critic as well as a poet.
2 Audiobooks
The Epic An Essay
by Lascelles Abercrombie
Emblems of Love
by Lascelles Abercrombie
About the author
Born in Ashton upon Mersey, Cheshire, on January 9, 1881, Lascelles Abercrombie became known as a British poet, literary critic, and one of the writers linked with the Dymock group of poets before the First World War. He studied at Malvern College and Owens College, Manchester, and worked early on as a journalist before turning more fully toward literature.
Abercrombie was associated with Georgian poetry, but his work reached beyond lyric verse into criticism and literary theory. After the war, he held professorships in English literature at several English universities, building a reputation as a serious teacher and thinker about poetry as well as a practicing poet.
He died in London on October 27, 1938. Remembered for both his poems and his critical writing, he remains an interesting figure for readers drawn to early twentieth-century English literature and the circle of writers gathered around the Georgian movement.