Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie ( born January 9, 1881 in Ashton- upon- Mersey at Sale, † October 27, 1938 in London ) was an English writer.

Life

Abercrombie studied in Manchester sciences, was from 1919 to 1922 lecturer at the University of Liverpool, then a professor of English literature at Leeds, London and Oxford.

Were initially the early works of John Masefield model for his dramas. As a poet he was one of the Dymock Poets and was taken up by Edward Marsh in the collection of Georgian Poetry.

Works

• Interludes and Poems (1910 )
• Emblems of Love (1912 )
• Twelve Idyls and Other Poems (1928 )
• Collected Poems (1930 )
• Lyrics and Unfinished Poems (1940 )

• The End of the World ( 1914)
• Deborah (1917 )
• Four Short Plays ( 1922)
• Phoenix (1923 )
• The Sale of Saint Thomas (1930 )

• Thomas Hardy ( 1912)
• The Epic (1912 )
• Theory of Art ( 1922)
• The Theory of Poetry ( 1924)
• The Idea of ​​Great Poetry ( 1925)
• Romanticism (1926 )
• A Plea for the Liberty of Interpreting (1930 )
• Poetry - Its Music and Meaning (1932 )