It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
M. H. AbramsThe theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
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