Abercrombie, Lascelles

Abercrombie, Lascelles ( 1881 – 1938 ).
He began as a literary journalist in Liverpool, and became successively lecturer in poetry at Liverpool University ( 1919 – 22 ), professor of poetry at Leeds ( 1922 – 9 ), and reader in English at Oxford. His first volume of verse, Interludes and Poems, appeared in 1908 and further volumes followed, including his collected Poems ( 1930 ) and the verse play The Sale of St Thomas ( 1931 ). Abercrombie contributed to Georgian Poetry and several of his verse plays appeared in New Numbers ( 1914 ).