For All The English Majors Out There...
From The Chronicle of Higher Education:
"In literary studies, M.H. Abrams is an iconic name. It
appeared as 'general editor' for 40 years on nearly nine million copies
of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, and has also, in a detail
that only scholars would know, led the indexes of many a critical book
for a half-century. (In fact, one scholar I know cited 'Aarlef' just to
avoid that custom.) In addition, Abrams, now 95, stamped the study of
Romantic literature: His book The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory
and the Critical Tradition (Oxford University Press, 1953) was ranked
25th in the Modern Library's list of the 100 most important nonfiction
books of the 20th century, and he was a prime participant in debates
over literary theory, especially deconstruction, during the 1970s and
80s."
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