Editing Lascelles Abercrombie (section)

==Poetry and plays==
Abercrombie's poetry consists very largely of long poems in blank verse, mainly in dramatic form. They treat the extremes of imagined rather than actual experience, from ecstasy to anguish and malice, with little in between, in verse full of sharp, gem-like imagery and generally rugged in sound and metre. Admired for a time by good judges such as [[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]], [[Oliver Elton]] and [[Una Ellis-Fermor]], and respected by his fellow 'Georgian' poets, it was never popular, and by the 1930s no longer corresponded to what readers sought in modern verse.

His 'Four Short Plays' of 1922 have fared better and still receive some attention, particularly 'The Staircase', because of their more realistic characters and setting. They compare favourably to the poetic plays of the other Georgian poets, such as [[John Drinkwater (playwright)|John Drinkwater]] and [[John Masefield]].