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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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Birth: | 23rd July, 1912 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Critic |
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Meyer Howard Abrams is an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp. Under Abrams' editorship, the Norton Anthology of English Literature became the standard text for undergraduate survey courses across the U.S. and a major trendsetter in literary canon formation.
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