Meyer (Mike) Howard Abrams (born 1912) is an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp.

He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. He studied to doctoral level at Harvard University, and became a professor at Cornell University.

Works

• The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1953)
• The Poetry of Pope: A Selection (1954)
• Literature and Belief: English Institute Essays, 1957. (1957) editor
• A Glossary of Literary Terms (1958)

English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays In Criticism (1960)

• Norton Anthology of English Literature (1962) founding editor, many later editions with others
• The Milk of Paradise: The Effect of Opium Visions on the Works of DeQuincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridge (1970)
• Natural Supernaturalism Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (1971)
• The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism (1984)
• Doing Things with Texts : Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory (1989)

Reference

• Lawrence Lipking, editor (1981) High Romantic Argument : Essays For M.H. Abrams