Lascelles Abercrombie
Lascelles Abercrombie (
1881-
1938) was a
British poet and literary critic, one of the "
Dymock poets". He was born in Ashton-on-Mersey, and educated at
Manchester University. Before the
First World War, he lived for a time at
Dymock in
Gloucestershire, part of a community which included
Rupert Brooke and
Edward Thomas. In
1922, he was appointed Professor of English at
Leeds University. In
1929 he moved on to
London University, and in
1935 obtained a teaching post at
Oxford. He wrote several books of poetry criticism, as well as his own
Georgian poetry, which was collected and published in
1930. He was the brother of the architect Patrick Abercrombie.