M.H. Abrams

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Periods of American Literature

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9 American Countercultural Books

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Was Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican or a Democrat?

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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Which Religion Is the Oldest?

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

Apollo 12 astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad stands beside the U.S. flag after is was unfurled on the lunar surface during the first extravehicular activity (EVA-1) Nov. 19, 1969. Footprints made by the crew can be seen in the photograph.

How Many People Have Been to the Moon?

pg 229Nazi parade features a banner proclaiming, "Death to Marxism."The possibility of a peaceful Germany after World War I was precluded entirely by the terms of the Versailles Treaty and theintransigent hostility of France and England. Stripped of indu

Were the Nazis Socialists?

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

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Also Known As	Meyer Howard Abrams
Born	July 23, 1912 • Long Branch • New Jersey
Died	April 21, 2015 (aged 102) • Ithaca • New York
Notable Works	“Doing Things With Texts” • “Natural Supernaturalism” • “The Correspondent Breeze” • “The Fourth Dimension of a Poem, and Other Essays” • “The Milk of Paradise: The Effects of Opium Visions on the Works of De Quincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridge” • “The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition”
Movement / Style	Romanticism

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

portrait of Germaine de Staël

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

Théophile Gautier

French author

Schlegel, August Wilhelm von

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Schlegel, Friedrich von

Friedrich von Schlegel

German writer

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

German author

Agustín Durán

Spanish literary critic

Levertin, oil painting by C.O. Larsson, 1906; in the Bonniers' Collection, Stockholm

Oscar Ivar Levertin

Swedish poet and scholar

Atterbom

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

Swedish author

A. Bartlett Giamatti

American baseball commissioner

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Pound, Ezra

Ezra Pound

American poet

Master of the macabre

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

American critic and scholar

Stephen Greenblatt

American scholar

James Russell Lowell.

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

American critic

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

American literary critic and author