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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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