When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
M. H. Abrams Quotes
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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| Birth: | 23rd July, 1912 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Critic |
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Meyer Howard Abrams is an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp. Under Abrams' editorship, the Norton Anthology of English Literature became the standard text for undergraduate survey courses across the U.S. and a major trendsetter in literary canon formation.
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