ABRAMS, M(eyer) H(oward)

ABRAMS, M(eyer) H(oward). American, b. 1912. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Assistant Professor, 1945-47, Associate Professor, 1947-53, Professor, 1953-60, and Frederic J. Whiton Professor, 1960-63). Advisory Ed., W.W. Norton and Co. Inc., NYC, 1961-; Member, Council of Scholars, Library of Congress, 1980-. Instructor, 1938-42, and Research Associate, Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, 1942-45, Harvard University; Fulbright Lecturer, Royal University of Malta and Cambridge University, 1953; Roache Lecturer, University of Indiana, Bloomington, 1963; Alexander Lecturer, University of Toronto, 1964; Ewing Lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles, 1974. Publications: The Milk of Paradise: The Effect of Opium Visions on the Works of DeQuincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson and Coleridge, 1934, 1970; The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, 1953; A Glossary of Literary Terms, 1957, 1998; Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature, 1971; The Correspondent Breeze: Essays in English Romanticism, 1984; Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory, 1989. EDITOR: Literature and belief, 1958; The Poetry of Pope, 1958; English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism, 1960, 1975; The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 1962, 1999; Wordsworth: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1972; (with others) Wordsworth's Prelude 1799-1850, 1979. Address: 378 Savage Farm Dr, Ithaca, NY 14850, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]