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M. H. Abrams

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Also known as Meyer Howard Abrams

American literary theorist (1912–2015)

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M. H. Abrams appears in Vinony's American Academy of Arts & Sciences collection — one of 9,861 entries.

Vinony's link graph records 467 inbound references to M. H. Abrams, and connects out to World War II, Friedrich Nietzsche and New Jersey.

It is catalogued under topics including 1912 births, 2015 deaths and 20th-century American male writers.

Vinony links it to 18 Wikipedia language editions.

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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date of birth
1912-07-23
date of death
2015-04-21
name in native language
Meyer Howard Abrams
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