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Anniversaries
; Anniversaries TODAY: Births: John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent, admiral, 1735; Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and critic, 1881; Dame Gracie Fields (Grace Stansfield), singer and actress, 1898; George Balanchine, choreographer, 1904...
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Party on Parnassus
; ...literary taste," is how Peter Parker describes this 825-page compilation of mini-biographies of 1,000 writers, from Lascelles Abercrombie to Louis Zukofsky. In fact the time- scale stretches impressively beyond a century: Thomas Hardy (b 1840) is...
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Walks and talks with Robert Frost
; ...the other four Dymock Poets, Lascelles Abercrombie, Wilfrid Gibson, John Drinkwater...London at a time when poets Abercrombie, Gibson, Brooke and Drinkwater...any poetry. By March 1914, Abercrombie and Gibson, who thought much...
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 "Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)")
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Host of golden opportunities for walkers on Daffodil Way.
; ...Midlands. The villages of Kempley and Dymock are the heart of the Golden Triangle where, according to the poet Lascelles Abercrombie, there are meadlowland daffodils running in golden tides. Later this month the villages on the borders of Herefordshire...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Postal staff who lost their lives remembered once again.(News)
; ...retail development. Created by acclaimed sculptor Herbert Tyson Smith and featuring a dedication by Liverpool poet Lascelles Abercrombie, the monument is regarded as one of the finest war memorials in the country. Following the closure of the post...
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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Memorial back at post office site.(News)
; ...in the 1914-18 war. It was created by sculptor Herbert Tyson Smith and features a dedication by Liverpool poet Lascelles Abercrombie. After the closure of the post office, the statue was moved to Liverpool conservation centre. CAPTION(S): TRIBUTE...
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A fitting tribute to tribute our lost heroes; It has been hidden for six years, but the Royal Mail plans to have one of Britain's greatest war memorials returned t public view in its Liverpool home.(News)
; ...be forgotten. So they hired Herbert Tyson Smith, the acclaimed sculptor, to create a fitting monument, while Lascelles Abercrombie, the Liverpool poet, who became professor of English at Leeds University, wrote a dedication to the fallen postmen...
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RADIO
; ...a duck and some green peas stewing in it," said Catherine Abercrombie, "and John Drinkwater and Wilfred Gibson would sit around...found the why and the wherefore of life." Catherine's husband Lascelles (it rhymes with tassels) was the big name in poetry then...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Sheer poetry as walkers put their boots into shed.
; ...Dymock Church but walkers with muddy boots might feel uncomfortable about going in there. The Dymock Poets were Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas and Robert Frost, who all lived and worked in...
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Sights at every verse end
; ...months before war broke out several others - known as the "Georgian poets" - arrived to join them. They included Lascelles Abercrombie, John Drinkwater and Rupert Brooke. We set out from Dymock, having bought an excellent little map for 50p at...
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