Abercrombie, Lascelles
Related Category: English Literature, 20th cent. to the Present: Biographies
(lăs´əlz), 1881–1938, English poet and critic. Complex and cerebral in style, his poetry often expresses his distaste for 20th-century industrialism. His volumes of poetry include
Interludes and Poems (1908),
Emblems of Love (1912), and
Collected Poems (1930). He also wrote influential critical works, notably
Thomas Hardy (1912) and
The Theory of Poetry (1924).
