Lascelles Abercrombie Author

Gender: Male
Citizenship: England
Born: Jan 9, 1881
Died: Oct 27, 1938

Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate, linking him with the "Georgian poets") (9 January 1881 - 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at Malvern College, and at the University of Manchester.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

poetry & work

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

poetry

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

aging & poetry