When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. - M. H. Abrams
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
- M. H. Abrams
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. - M. H. Abrams
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. - M. H. Abrams
Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. - M. H. Abrams
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. - M. H. Abrams
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle. - M. H. Abrams
If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. - M. H. Abrams
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you ha… - M. H. Abrams
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you ha…
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing,… - M. H. Abrams
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing,…
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