M. H. Abrams AKA Meyer Howard Abrams
Born: 23-Jul-1912
Birthplace: Long Branch, NJ
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Mirror and the Lamp
Military service: Psycho-Acoustics Laboratory, Harvard (WWII, classified research)
Wife: Ruth Claire Gaynes (married 62+ years)
University: AB, Harvard University (1934)
University: AM, Harvard University (1937)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1940)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._H._Abrams
Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams (born July 23, 1912) 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.
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, he entered Harvard University as an undergraduate in 1930. He went into English because, he says, "there weren't jobs in any other profession, so I thought I might as well enjoy starving, instead of starving while doing something I didn't enjoy." After earning his baccalaureate in 1934, Abrams won a Henry fellowship to the University of Cambridge, where his tutor was I.A. Richards. He returned to Harvard for graduate school in 1935 and received his Masters' degree in 1937 and his PhD in 1940. During WWII, he served at the Psycho-Acoustics Laboratory at Harvard. He describes his work as solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment by establishing military codes that are highly audible and inventing selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. In 1945 Abrams became a professor at Cornell University. As of March 4th, 2008, he was Class of 1916 Professor of English Emeritus there.
Works:
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1953) ISBN 978-0-19-501471-6
The Poetry of Pope: A Selection (1954) ISBN 978-0-88295-067-9
Literature and Belief: English Institute Essays, 1957. (1957) editor ISBN 978-0-231-02278-1
A Glossary of Literary Terms (1958; 7th ed. 1999) ISBN 978-0-15-505452-3
English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays In Criticism (1960) ISBN 978-0-19-501946-9
Norton Anthology of English Literature (1962) founding editor, many later editions
The Milk of Paradise: The Effect of Opium Visions on the Works of DeQuincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridge (1970) ISBN 978-0-374-90028-1
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (1971) ISBN 978-0-393-04305-1
The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism (1984) ISBN 978-0-393-30340-7
Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory (1989) ISBN 978-0-393-02713-6
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評分作為一本中規中矩的辭典,此書並不閤格。與其說它是一部有關文學術語的工具書,不如說它是艾布拉姆斯錶現自己文論思想的新嘗試。正如伏爾泰創作《哲學辭典》一樣,《文學術語匯編》注重的是作者自身對文學詞匯的理解與評價,有時甚至忽略瞭文學術語的本身意涵。也許這樣描...
評分作為一本中規中矩的辭典,此書並不閤格。與其說它是一部有關文學術語的工具書,不如說它是艾布拉姆斯錶現自己文論思想的新嘗試。正如伏爾泰創作《哲學辭典》一樣,《文學術語匯編》注重的是作者自身對文學詞匯的理解與評價,有時甚至忽略瞭文學術語的本身意涵。也許這樣描...
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