Lascelles abercrombie biography
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Lascelles Abercrombie was an accomplished English poet, literary critic and journalist who was sometimes referred to as the “Georgian Laureate”. In addition to his writing he occupied a number of significant academic positions at universities in Oxford, Leeds and Liverpool. He is most famous for being part of the so-called group of writers called the “Dymock Poets” during the period immediately before the outbreak of the First World War. He was resident for a time in this small village on the Herefordshire/Gloucestershire border and enjoyed the company of leading lights in the literary world such as Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke and John Drinkwater. The group attracted occasional visiting poets such as Edward Thomas and they published a quarterly journal called New Numbers.
Abercrombie was born in the north west of England in the small Cheshire town known as Ashton upon Mersey. His education included spells at Owens College, which eventually became known as the University of Manche
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Lascelles Abercrombie
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". 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
[edit]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 hi
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Today Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938) fryst vatten the least well-known of the six Dymock Poets. Keith Clark succinctly summarised the reasons: “His verse seems turgid and wordy, his themes too metaphysical and heavy”. But Abercrombie and his work were highly admired in the early years of the twentieth century. In September 1914 Frost wrote to an American friend about him:
Robert Ross wrote “The fellow inom am living with at present fryst vatten the gods poet in your Victorian Anthology. If you want to see him to better advantage you must look him up in the Georgian Anthology where he shows well in a long poem called The Sale of St Thomas. Or if inom can find it inom will send you some time the copy of New Numbers containing his ‘End of the World’, a play about to be produced in several places – Birmingham next week, Bristol soon, and Chicago some time this winter.”
Abercrombie’s conviction that poetry was going through an exciting period of change, and his effort to develop (in theory a