M.H. Abrams: Quick Facts
Facts
| Also Known As | Meyer Howard Abrams |
|---|---|
| Born | July 23, 1912 • Long Branch • New Jersey |
| Died | April 21, 2015 (aged 102) • Ithaca • New York |
| Notable Works | “Doing Things With Texts” • “Natural Supernaturalism” • “The Correspondent Breeze” • “The Fourth Dimension of a Poem, and Other Essays” • “The Milk of Paradise: The Effects of Opium Visions on the Works of De Quincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridge” • “The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition” |
| Movement / Style | Romanticism |
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