If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. M. H. Abrams More Quotes by M. H. Abrams More Quotes From M. H. Abrams The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively. M. H. Abrams new thought me criticism Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition. M. H. Abrams jews outsider tradition eye I was never a monist - always a diversitarian. M. H. Abrams never always The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?' M. H. Abrams direction true looking nature
