M. H. Abrams

Name: The Norton Anthology of English
ISBN: 9780393947557

Critic

1912-07-23

Books by M. H. Abrams

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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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