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Lascelles Abercrombie Author

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: Jan 9, 1881
  • Died: Oct 27, 1938

Lascelles Abercrombie (also known as the Georgian Laureate, linking him with the "Georgian poets") (9 January 1881 - 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". He was born in Ashton upon Mersey and educated at Malvern College, and at the University of Manchester.

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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. poetry

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