Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie
Abercrombie in 1937.
Born(1881-01-09)9 January 1881
Ashton upon Mersey, Sale, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died27 October 1938(1938-10-27) (aged 57)
London, England, UK
OccupationJournalist, lecturer
Alma materMalvern College, Owens College

Lascelles Abercrombie, FBA (9 January 1881 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". After the First World War he worked as a professor of English literature in a number of English universities, writing principally on the theory of literature.