Who is Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie, (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) 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

Abercrombie was born in Ashton upon Mersey, Sale, Cheshire. He was educated at Malvern College, and at Owens College, Manchester.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 ...
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Lascelles Abercrombie Poems

• Marriage Song
  I
  
  Come up, dear chosen morning, come,
  Blessing the air with light, ...
• Emblems Of Love, Part Ii Imperfection
  MARY
  
  [A LEGEND OF THE FORTY-FIVE]
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• Epilogue To Emblems Of Love
  What shall we do for Love these days?
  How shall we make an altar-blaze
  To smite the horny eyes of men
  With the renown of our Heaven, ...
• The End Of The World, Act I
  PERSONS
  
  HUFF, the Farmer
  SOLLERS, the Wainwright. ...
• The End Of The World, Act Ii
  ACT II
  
  As before, a little while after. The room is empty when the curtain goes up. SOLLERS runs in and paces about, but stops short when he catches sight of a pot dog on the mantlepiece.
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