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M. H. Abrams

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Also known as Meyer Howard Abrams

American literary theorist (1912–2015)

Person · Open Library

Born
1912
Died
2015
Works
98

Top works

  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature --Seventh Edition -- Volume 2A
  • Fourth Dimension of a Poem
  • The mirror and the lamp
  • The Twentieth Century and After -- Ninth Edition
  • The Norton Anthology of English Literature -- Fourth Edition -- Volume 1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1999-09-07

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Quotes

  • John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. I like to read Archie Ammons, my great friend. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
  • The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
  • Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
  • If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
  • When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that.
  • If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Howard
Family name
Abrams
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Long Branch
Place of death
Ithaca
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
I. A. Richards
Field of work
Romantic literature
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date of birth
1912-07-23
date of death
2015-04-21
professorship
professor
name in native language
Meyer Howard Abrams
subject has role
centenarian
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