MH Abrams

[Mark Kohut]

See this, if interested, for some history and judgment about the
canon-defining nature of his Norton Anthology.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n03/leah-price/elegant-extracts

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Abrams Remembers Pynchon
> Charles Hollander
> Pynchon Notes 36-39, 1995-1996, pp. 179-180
>
> http://www.vheissu.net/articles/hollander_abrams.php
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:47 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/04/mh-abrams-beloved-professor-literary-scholar-dies-102
>>
>> Abrams, who received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack
>> Obama last July, was the Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus of English. He
>> came to Cornell in 1945 as an assistant professor and retired in 1983. Among
>> his students over the years were literary critics Harold Bloom '51 and E.D.
>> Hirsch '50 and novelist Thomas Pynchon '59. Abrams was named the F.J. Whiton
>> Professor of English in 1960 and the Class of 1916 Professor in 1973.
>>
>> Abrams conducted classified research at Harvard's Psycho-Acoustics
>> Laboratory during World War II, helping the military solve problems in voice
>> communications by developing highly audible military codes and tests to
>> select personnel with the ability to recognize sounds in a noisy background.
>>
>> "The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing - by,
>> for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source
>> of the power and permanence of literature."
>>
>> amen to that
>>
>> rich
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