Meyer Howard Abrams

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Meyer Howard Abrams was an influential American literary critic and scholar best known for his work on Romanticism and for editing the Norton Anthology of English Literature.

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instanceOf academic
human
literary critic
scholar
alsoKnownAs Meyer Howard Abrams
surface form: M. H. Abrams
awardReceived American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellowship
surface form: Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

National Humanities Medal
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1912-07-23
dateOfDeath 2015-04-21
educatedAt Cambridge University NERFINISHED
Harvard University
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
employer Cornell University
familyName Abrams
fieldOfWork English literature
Romanticism
literary criticism
fullName Meyer Howard Abrams self-link
genre literary criticism
literary theory
givenName Meyer
influenced 20th-century literary criticism
modern Romanticism scholarship
influencedBy Romantic poets
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
knownFor editing The Norton Anthology of English Literature
work on Romanticism
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Modern Language Association
nationality American
notableWork Natural Supernaturalism
The Mirror and the Lamp
Norton Anthologies
surface form: The Norton Anthology of English Literature
occupation professor
placeOfBirth Long Branch, New Jersey NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Ithaca, New York, United States
surface form: Ithaca, New York
positionHeld Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University
religion Judaism
stateOfBirth New Jersey, United States
surface form: New Jersey
stateOfDeath New York
timePeriod 20th century
21st century

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