Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie
Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938) was a British poet and literary critic, known for his association with the Georgian Poets and his advocacy of traditional poetic forms. He played a key role in the Dymock Poets group, which included Robert Frost and Rupert Brooke. Among his notable works are "Interludes and Poems" (1908) and "The Sale of Saint Thomas" (1911), the latter being a verse drama. Abercrombie also lectured extensively on poetry and drama, eventually becoming a professor of English literature at Leeds and then at London University.

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PRELUDE Night on bleak downs; a high grass-grown trench runs athwart the slope. The earthwork is manned by warriors clad in hides. Two warriors, BRYS and GAST, talking. Gast.This puts a tall heart in me, and a tuneOf great glad blood flowing brave in my flesh,To see thee, after all these moons, returned,My Brys. If there's no rust in thy shoulder-joints,That battle-wrath of thine, and thy good... more...

I.BEGINNINGSThe invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and, in the history of the world, often recurring state of society. That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. Most nations have passed through the same sort of chemistry. Before their hot racial... more...