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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition

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    With his second work, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1953), an expanded version of his Ph.D. dissertation, he joined the front rank of Romantic-literature scholars. The book’s title denotes the two metaphors by which Abrams characterized 18th- and 19th-century English literature, respectively—the former…

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