Education
He was educated at Malvern College and Victoria University, Manchester.
He was educated at Malvern College and Victoria University, Manchester.
became a university teacher of literature and an active lecturer. As a poet, he was at first acclaimed as a metaphysical for his Interludes and Poems (1908) but subsequently came to be considered one of the Georgian poets. His fervid austerity, strength, and individual vocabulary hardly make him typical of this group but they may partly account for his restricted popularity. Besides verse and the closet drama of his Four Short Plays (1922), all of which reflect marked Biblical interests, Abercrombie's miscellaneous work includes Thomas Hardy, a Critical Study (1912) and Principles of English Prosody (1923). In 1914 he was associated with Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, and Wilfrid Gibson in publishing the four issues of New Numbers. Abercrombie's collected poems were published in 1930.