Abrams (19 12-) is a master of modern and contemporary literary theorists in Europe and America. He was born in a Jewish family in New Jersey, the son of a painter. 1930 was admitted to Harvard University and was the first person in his family to go to college. When talking about why he chose literature as his major, abrams said: "Because there was no other major to find a job at that time (during the Great Depression), I thought I could at least do the literature I liked and endure hunger at the same time, instead of doing the work I didn't like at the same time." There is no other job, so I think I might as well enjoy being hungry instead of staring at something I don't like. During his four years at Harvard, he received strict training from the School of Literature History of Harvard University. 1934 After graduating from university, he won the Henry Scholarship, went to Cambridge University in England to study under I.A. Richards, and then graduated from Harvard on 1940. His doctoral thesis at Harvard is Mirror and Lamp, which has been constantly revised and expanded and will have great influence in the future.

After graduation, abrams taught at Cornell University for a long time, and now he is an honorary professor of English at 19 16 level. He wrote a lot in his life, among which the most representative work is Natural Supernatural: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (197 1). Similar Breeze: English Romantic Essays (1984), Doing Things with Text: Essays on Criticism and Critical Theory (1989), Glossary of Literary Terms (1957), etc. In addition, he also served as the editor-in-chief of Norton Selected Works of English Literature, which has been revised, expanded and reprinted for a long time, and the editor-in-chief of Romantic Volume. This authoritative textbook has long been a must-read textbook for literature majors in English-speaking countries and a must-read teaching reference book for English literature majors in non-English-speaking countries.