Meyer Abrams
Meyer Abrams · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Literary critic (The Mirror and the Lamp); founding editor of the Norton Anthology
1912, Long Branch, New Jersey, United States — 2015, Ithaca, New York, United States
United States
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M. H. Abrams was an American literary critic whose 'The Mirror and the Lamp' (1953) reshaped the study of Romanticism, and who served as founding general editor of 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature', which educated generations of students. He was Jewish, born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and taught for decades at Cornell University.
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Literary critic (The Mirror and the Lamp); founding editor of the Norton Anthology
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 250 most-cited scholars in the Arts & Humanities
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