by Meyer H. Abrams (Author)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 15 Sep 1971
ISBN 10: 0195014715
ISBN 13: 9780195014716
Abrams has written a remarkable book on the history of criticism, the most distinguished contribution of American scholarship in that field since the work of J.E. Spingarn. --Comparative Literature
The book is so rich in thought that it is invaluable for students of the romantic movement and indeed of the whole theory of criticism. I regard it as one of the most distinguished achievements of American literary scholarship of our day. --Modern Philology
With this book, M.H. Abrams has given us a remarkable study, admirably conceived and executed, a book of quite exceptional and no doubt lasting significance for a number of fields--for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for English literary history, criticism, and aesthetics. --Modern Language Journal
The past forty years have seen many attempts at ordering our ideas about literature; The Mirror and the Lamp stands out among them as a unique combination of rich historical scholarship and hard-won clarity of thought. --The Times Literary Supplement (London)