John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. M. H. Abrams Read Quote
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture. M. H. Abrams Read Quote
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. M. H. Abrams Read Quote
Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process… has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas. M. H. Abrams Read Quote
It’s amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. M. H. Abrams Read Quote
