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M.H. Abrams

Born

in Long Branch, New Jersey, The United States

July 23, 1912

Died

April 21, 2015

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._H._Abrams

Genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

Influences

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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. In a powerful contrast, Abrams shows that until the Romantics, literature was usually understood as a mirror, reflecting the real world, in some kind of mimesis; but for the Romantics, writing was more like a lamp: the light of the writer's inner soul spilled out to illuminate the world. 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.

Abrams was born in a Jewish family in Long Branch, New Jersey. The son of a house painter and the first in his family to go to college ...more

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	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century by M.H. Abrams (Founding Editor), Stephen Greenblatt (General Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 9,184 ratings — published 1962 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century by M.H. Abrams (Founding Editor), Carol T. Christ (Editor), Alfred David (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 3,574 ratings — published 1962 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. B: The Sixteenth Century & The Early Seventeenth Century by M.H. Abrams (Founding Editor), Stephen Greenblatt (General Editor), George M. Logan (editor) 4.05 avg rating — 1,228 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Glossary of Literary Terms 4.08 avg rating — 1,049 ratings — published 1941 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition 4.14 avg rating — 871 ratings — published 1954 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. D: The Romantic Period by M.H. Abrams (Founding Editor), Stephen Greenblatt (General Editor), Deidre Shauna Lynch 4.07 avg rating — 867 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. A: Middle Ages by M.H. Abrams (Founding Editor), Stephen Greenblatt (General Editor), James Simpson 3.96 avg rating — 869 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. E: The Victorian Age by M.H. Abrams (Founding Editor), Stephen Greenblatt (General Editor), Catherine Robson 4.03 avg rating — 842 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors by M.H. Abrams (Editor), Stephen Greenblatt (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 809 ratings — published 1962 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. C: The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century by M.H. Abrams (Founding Editor), Stephen Greenblatt (General Editor), James Noggle 3.92 avg rating — 681 ratings — published 1999 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.”
― M. H. Abrams

tags: fascination, humanity, literature, reading

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“It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.”
― M. H. Abrams

tags: culture, literature

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“A work of art is essentially the internal made external, resulting from a creative process operating under the impulse of feeling, and embodying the combined product of the poet's perceptions, thoughts, and feelings. The primary source and subject matter of a poem, therefore, are the attributes and actions of the poet's own mind; or of if aspects of the external world, then these only as they are converted from fact to poetry by the feelings and operations of the poet's mind.”
― M.H. Abrams

tags: artist, artwork, mind, poet, poetry

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