M.H. Abrams

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Periods of American Literature

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9 American Countercultural Books

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6 Cultures That Recognize More than Two Genders

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The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

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6 Interesting Facts about Srinivasa Ramanujan

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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

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

portrait of Germaine de Staël

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

Théophile Gautier

French author

Schlegel, August Wilhelm von

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Schlegel, Friedrich von

Friedrich von Schlegel

German writer

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

German author

Agustín Durán

Spanish literary critic

Levertin, oil painting by C.O. Larsson, 1906; in the Bonniers' Collection, Stockholm

Oscar Ivar Levertin

Swedish poet and scholar

Atterbom

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

Swedish author

A. Bartlett Giamatti

American baseball commissioner

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Pound, Ezra

Ezra Pound

American poet

Master of the macabre

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

American critic and scholar

Stephen Greenblatt

American scholar

James Russell Lowell.

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

American critic

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

American literary critic and author