Quotes by M. H. Abrams

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
– M. H. Abrams
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
– M. H. Abrams
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
– M. H. Abrams