MH Abrams

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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