Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881–1938)

English poet and scholar. He published Interludes and Poems (1908) and several other volumes of verse and verse dramas before World War I. Among Abercrombie's critical works are a study of Thomas Hardy (1912), Principles of English Prosody (1924), and Poetry: Its Music and Meaning (1932). His Collected Poems appeared in 1930.

Abercrombie was born in Ashton-upon-Mersey, and educated at Malvern College and Manchester University. He began working as a journalist, but turned increasingly to poetry. In 1919 he was appointed lecturer in English at Liverpool, then held the chairs of English at Leeds 1922–29 and London 1929–35, finally becoming Goldsmith's Reader in English at Oxford and a fellow of Merton College.