M. H. Abrams Quotes

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

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

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

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that ...