Educated at Malvern College and Owen's College, Manchester where he studied chemistry, Abercrombie was drawn to literature and left college without a degree. In 1908, he began to write for the Liverpool Courier. That year he also published his first book, Interludes and Poems. In 1912, his poetic drama, The Sale of St. Thomas, appeared in volume 1 of Edward Marsh's Georgian Poetry. In 1911, he moved to Gloucestershire and entered a circle of poets that included Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater and Wilfrid Gibson. Together they collaborated on the Georgian journal New Numbers. The outbreak of war in 1914, however, ended its publication after only four volumes. Following the war, Abercrombie turned to literary criticism and a scholastic career which included lectureships at Oxford, Leeds and Liverpool, He died from diabetes complications in 1938. His other works include Emblems of Love (1912), Thomas Hardy (1912), The Epic (1914), The Theory of Poetry (1922), The Idea of Great Poetry (1925), Collected Poems (1930), Colloquial Language in Literature (1931) and Principles of Literary Criticism (1932). |
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