If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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M. H. Abrams
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About M. H. Abrams
Meyer Howard Abrams, usually cited as M. H. Abrams, was an American literary critic, known for works on romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp. Under Abrams's 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.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by M. H. AbramsWhen I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.