Top 18 Quotes by M. H. Abrams

About M. H. Abrams

These are some quotes by No-nationality author M. H. Abrams Critic, who lived between July 23, 1912 and April 21, 2015.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

M. H. Abrams

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

M. H. Abrams

The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

M. H. Abrams

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

M. H. Abrams

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

M. H. Abrams

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

M. H. Abrams

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

M. H. Abrams

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

M. H. Abrams

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

M. H. Abrams

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