Northrop Frye's Uncollected Prose

Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential English scholars and literary critics. Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria University in the University of Toronto from 1939 until his death. His works include Words with Power and Anatomy of Criticism.Robert D. Denham is the John P. Fishwick Professor of English Emeritus at Roanoke College.

‘Denham’s editing is impeccable; his introduction furnishes a guide to readers who may not enjoy Frye’s plot summaries… This new collection gives further reason why we need to take another look at Frye.’- Mervyn Nicholson (English Studies in Canada vol 42:1-2:2016)

• Introduction1. 1932 Notebook (mid-1930s)2. Intoxicated with Words: The Colours of Rhetoric (1940s)3. Review of Books by Rosamond Tuve and Douglas Bush (1953)4. Neoclassical Agony: On Wyndham Lewis (1957)5. Review of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago (1958)6. On T.S. Eliot and Other Observations: From Notebook 13 (1960s)7. On Finnegans Wake (1961)           8. Notes on the Massey Lectures, Yeats, and Other Topics: From Notebook 9 (1962)9. Introduction to Fables of Identity (1963)10. Response to the Macpherson Report (1967)        11. Communication and the Arts: A Humanist Looks at Science and Technology (1969)12. Preface to The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society (1969)13. Notes on Romance (1974)           14. Romance as Secular Scripture: Interview and Discussion at the Thomas More Institute, Montreal (1976)15. Preface to Spiritus Mundi (1976)16. Victoria College’s Contribution to the Development of Canadian Culture (1977)         17. Seeing, Hearing, Praying, Loving (1985)18. The Soviet Union and Russia (1989)       19. Notes for The Double Vision: Notebook 51 (1990)         20. Notes on Miscellaneous Subjects 21. The Victoria Chapel Windows