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M.H. Abrams

Author profile

born

July 23, 1912 in Long Branch, New Jersey, The United States

gender

male

website

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

genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

influences

I.A. Richards

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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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Books by M.H. Abrams

Average rating: 4.04 · 1,283 ratings · 111 reviews · 33 distinct works

	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration & the Eighteenth Century 4.12 avg rating — 2,151 ratings — published 1962 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2: The Romantic Period through the Twentieth Century by Stephen Greenblatt (editor), M.H. Abrams (Founding Editor Emeritus ) 4.17 avg rating — 976 ratings — published 1962 — 32 editions	My rating:
	A Glossary of Literary Terms 3.83 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 1957 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition by M.H. Abrams, Meyer Howard Abrams 4.20 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1953 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors by M.H. Abrams (editor), Stephen Greenblatt (editor) 4.19 avg rating — 125 ratings — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1C: Restoration and the Eighteenth Century by M.H. Abrams (editor), Stephen Greenblatt (editor), Lawrence Lipking 3.55 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature by M.H. Abrams (editor), Carol T. Christ, Stephen Greenblatt (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1A: The Middle Ages by M.H. Abrams (editor), Alfred David, Stephen Greenblatt (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2 C: The Twentieth Century 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Wuthering Heights Vol 1 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1986	My rating: