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(1912-2015) Literary critic. M. H. Abrams was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and died in Ithaca, New York.

Full Name

M. H. Abrams

Locations

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Author's Timeline

1912

BIRTH

Meyer Howard Abrams was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, on July 23, 1912.

1934

LITWORK

The Milk Of Paradise: The Effect Of Opium Visions On The Works Of De Quincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson And Coleridge
Harvard University Press

Nonfiction.

1945

OTHER

Professor Abrams began teaching at Cornell University in 1945 and remained there until his retirement in 1983.

1953

LITWORK

The Mirror And The Lamp: Romantic Theory And The Critical Tradition
Oxford University Press
0195004655 / 978-0195004656
Nonfiction.

1957

LITWORK

A Glossary of Literary Terms


Nonfiction, written with Geoffrey Harpham.

1971

LITWORK

Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition And Revolution In Romantic Literature
W. W. Norton & Company
0196903955 / 978-0196903958
Nonfiction.

1984

LITWORK

The Correspondent Breeze: Essays On English Romanticism
W. W. Norton & Company
0393018377 / 978-0393018370
Nonfiction.

1989

LITWORK

Doing Things With Texts: Essays In Criticism And Critical Theory
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
0393027139 / 978-0393027136
Nonfiction.

2012

LITWORK

The Fourth Dimension Of A Poem
W. W. Norton & Company
0393058301 / 978-0393058307
Collection of essays.

2015

DEATH

M. H. Abrams died in Ithaca, New York, on April 21, 2015.

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