Record ID:
35000511 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 79061116
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19120723
  • Long Branch (N.J.)
Death:
  • 20150421
  • Ithaca (N.Y.)
Associated with:
  • United States
Fields of activity:
  • Romanticism English literature--History and criticism
Occupations:
  • Critics English teachers College teachersx
Used for:
  • Abrams, Meyer Howard, 1912-2015
  • Abrams, Mike (Meyer Howard), 1912-2015
  • Abrams, Meyer Howard
Notes:
  • Authors' Licensing & Collecting Soc. database, 28 Feb. 2005 (M. Abrams, born 23 July 1912)
  • His The milk of paradise, 1934.
  • Wikipedia 20 Aug. 2014 (Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams (born July 23, 1912) is an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp. Under Abrams' editorship, the Norton Anthology of English Literature became the standard text for undergraduate survey courses across the U.S. and a major trendsetter in literary canon formation. He turned 100 in July 2012)
  • New York times (online), viewed Apr. 23, 2015 (in obituary published Apr. 22: M.H. Abrams; known as Mike; b. Meyer Howard Abrams, July 23, 1912, Long Branch, N.J.; d. Tuesday [Apr. 21, 2015], Ithaca, N.Y., aged 102; transformed the study of Romanticism with the critical histories The mirror and the lamp and Natural supernaturalism; edited the first seven editions of The Norton anthology of English literature, a virtual Bible in literature survey courses)
Local system number:
  • abv00001241
  • 000000000536
  • (AuPaJTL)123081
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC Uk VJTL