THE DECONSTRUCTIVE ANGEL
M.H.ABRAMS
Critical
summary by Dr. S. Sreekumar for students of Indian Universities
[The PAPER
is closely linked to ‘The Critic as Host’ by J. Hillis Miller, the summary of
which is available in this blogspot]
M.H.Abrams——a brief biography
Meyer
Howard Abrams (M.H. Abrams) was an American literary critic known for his works
on English Romanticism. He was also the editor of The Norton
Anthology of English Literature.
Abrams was born on
July 23, 1912, in New Jersey as the son of East European Jewish immigrants. He
was the first in his family to go to college. He
entered Harvard University as an undergraduate in 1930. After earning his bachelor’s
degree, Abrams won a Henry Fellowship to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where
his tutor was I. A. Richards. He returned to
Harvard for graduate school and received a master's degree and a Ph.D.
