The Mirror and the Lamp
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1953) is a book by M. H. Abrams in which he shows that until the Romantics, literature was usually understood as a mirror, reflecting the real world, in some kind of mimesis; but for the Romantics, writing was more like a lamp: the light of the writer's inner soul spilled out to illuminate the world.
In 1998, Modern Library ranked The Mirror and the Lamp one of the 100 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.
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