The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Signed First Edition) by Abrams, M.H. [Meyer Howard "Mike"] - 1953

New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with all first issue points. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER; moderate wear to edges of covers; dust jacket is fairly clean with moderate wear; price not clipped ($7.50). Abrams shows that until the Romantics, literature was typically understood as a mirror reflecting the real world in some kind of mimesis; whereas for the Romantics, writing was more like a lamp: the light of the writer's inner soul spilled out to illuminate the world. In 1998, Modern Library ranked The Mirror and the Lamp one of the 100 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. Very scarce signed. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING AND COLLECTIBLE TITLES.