What to Read After The Mirror and the Lamp
Readers who loved The Mirror and the Lamp by Meyer H. Abrams keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Mirror and the Lamp is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Mirror and the Lamp
Mimesis
Anatomy of criticism
The sense of an ending
Ideas and opinions
The Proper Study of Mankind
Hedgehog and the Fox
The American language
The taming of chance
The anxiety of influence
The liberal imagination
Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism
Genius
James Joyce
Patriotic gore
The educated imagination
The Elizabethan world picture
Eminent Victorians
Aspects of the Novel
The great code
A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
Shakespearean Tragedy
Axel's castle
Fearful symmetry
The well wrought urn