Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate, linking him with the "Georgian poets") was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at the University of Manchester.
Before the First World War, he lived for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost. Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922, he was appointed Professor of English at the University of Leeds. In 1929 he moved on to the University of London, and in 1935 to a prestigious readership at Oxford University. He wrote a series of works on the nature of poetry, and several volumes of original verse, that were collected in 'Poems' (1930). In the same year he published separately his most important poem, 'The Sale of Saint Thomas' in six 'Acts'. Non-poetic works of his include The Idea of Great Poetry (1925) and Romanticism (1926).
He was the brother of the architect Patrick Abercrombie. His son was the cell biologist Michael Abercrombie.
Poems by this Poet
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Roses Can Wound | 31 July 2013 |
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Soul and Body | 19 May 2014 |
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The Deserter | 19 May 2014 |
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Ryton Firs | 31 July 2013 |
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The Fear | 19 May 2014 |
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Song from Judith 3 | 31 July 2013 |
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The Sale of Saint Thomas | 3 June 2013 |
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Peregrinus | 19 May 2014 |
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Hymn to Love | 3 June 2013 |
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White Love | 19 May 2014 |
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