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.