Dec 26, 2009
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | 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
).
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