Colleer Abbott') was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford,[2] and the University of London (B.A.
"[10] His poems frequently focus on local characters – eccentrics and solitaries in Essex and Suffolk villages – on people in inns, on rural labourers, on rustic lovers.
It was the subject of his most ambitious poem, the long retrospective sequence called Summer Love, begun in the 1930s but not printed till 1958.
It describes, in a variety of verse-forms, the pivotal love affair of his life, conducted during a long summer revisit to East Anglia with an unnamed woman from the North unfamiliar with the area and enchanted by it.
The numerous references to the elmscapes and waterways of East Anglia make Abbott a sort of verse Constable.