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.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. poetry & work
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. poetry
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. aging & poetry
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. 3 other views from John Millington Synge
3 other views from John Millington Synge
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. 28 views from William Butler Yeats
28 views from William Butler Yeats
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. 27 other views from Dave Barry
27 other views from Dave Barry
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 other views from Winston Churchill
74 other views from Winston Churchill