Lascelles Abercrombie, FBA Lascelles Abercrombie, FBA (9 January 1881 - 27 October 1938) was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". He served as an English language professor. Early life: He was born in Ashton upon Mersey, Sale, Cheshire and educated at Malvern College, and at Owens College.Before the First World War, he lived for a time at Dymock in Gloucestershire, part of a community that included Rupert Brooke, Robert Frost...