{"product_id":"the-mirror-and-the-lamp-9780195014716","title":"The Mirror and the Lamp","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis highly acclaimed study analyzes the various trends in English criticism during the first four decades of this century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the five works published within the last thirty years which in the opinion of representative scholars and critics have contributed most to the understanding of literature.\"--Contemporary Literary Scholarship \"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)","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017598435671,"sku":"9780195014716","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195014716.jpg?v=1750774072","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mirror-and-the-lamp-9780195014716","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}