When something startlingly new comes up, young people, espe… - M. H. Abrams

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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that.

M. H. Abrams

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Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams (23 July 1912 – 22 April 2015) was an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1971).

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