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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Born: January 9, 1881
Died: October 27, 1938 (aged 57)
Bio: Lascelles Abercrombie was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".
Known for:
- Emblems of Love (1912)
- The sale of Saint Thomas (1911)
- The poems of Lascelles Abercrombie (1930)
- An essay towards a theory of art (1922)
- The Epic An Essay