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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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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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