Quotes by "M. H. Abrams"
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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.
