An Essay Towards a Theory of Art

by Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate) (1881-1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the “Dymock poets”. He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at the University of Manchester. Before the First World War, he lived for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community which included Rupert Brooke and Robert Frost. Edward Thomas also visited. In 1922, he was appointed Professor of English at the University of Leeds. In 1929 he moved on to the University of London. In 1935 he began a prestigious readership at Oxford University. He wrote a series of works on the nature of poetry, and several volumes of original verse, that were collected in Poems (1930). In the same year he published separately his most important poem, The Sale of Saint Thomas in six ‘Acts’.

56 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2002

About the author

Lascelles Abercrombie was a British poet, dramatist and critic.
Professor of English at Leeds University, later at Bedford College, London.