M. H. Abrams

The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism

Buch

One of the deans of literary criticism in America, M. H. Abrams is Class of 1916 Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of two landmark books, The Mirror and the Lamp and Natural Supernaturalism, and general editor of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. This volume collects the essays, written over three decades, which-together with his books-testify to his preeminence. The essays examine Wordsworth's and Coleridge's innovations in their theories about the language of poetry; the prevalence, sources, and significance of a key Romantic image, the correspondent breeze; the pervasive revolutionary spirit of Romantic… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Stillinger, Jack (Solist)

ISBN: 978-0-393-30340-7
EAN: 9780393303407
Produktnummer: 4028532
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
Seitenangabe: 312 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 458 g
Gewicht: 458

Über den Autor

M. H. Abrams (1912-2015) was Class of 1916 Professor of English, Emeritus at Cornell University. He received the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Prize for The Mirror and the Lamp and the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for Natural Supernaturalism. He is also the author of The Milk of Paradise, A Glossary of Literary Terms, The Correspondent Breeze, and Doing Things with Texts. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Postwar fellowships, the Award in Humanistic Studies from the Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984), the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Society (1987), and the Award for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1990). In 1999 The Mirror and the Lamp was ranked twenty-fifth among the Modern Library's 100 best nonfiction books written in English during the twentieth century.