When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
M. H. AbramsJohn Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
M. H. AbramsIf you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams