Northrop Frye  

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Herman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and theorists, author of Anatomy of Criticism.

Works by Northrop Frye

The following is a list of his books, including the volumes in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye, an ongoing project under the editorship of Alvin A. Lee.

• Fearful Symmetry
• Anatomy of Criticism
• The Educated Imagination
• Fables of Identity
• T.S. Eliot
• The Well-Tempered Critic
• A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance
• The Return of Eden: Five Essays on Milton's Epics
• Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy
• The Modern Century
• A Study of English Romanticism
• The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society
• The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination
• The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism
• The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance
• Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society
• Northrop Frye on Culture and Literature: A Collection of Review Essays
• Creation and Recreation
• The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
• Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Canadian Culture
• The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies
• Harper Handbook to Literature (with Sheridan Baker and George W. Perkins)
• On Education
• No Uncertain Sounds
• Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays
• Words with Power: Being a Second Study of The Bible and Literature
• Reading the World: Selected Writings
• The Double Vision of Language, Nature, Time, and God
• A World in a Grain of Sand: Twenty-Two Interviews with Northrop Frye
• Reflections on the Canadian Literary Imagination: A Selection of Essays by Northrop Frye
• Mythologizing Canada: Essays on the Canadian Literary Imagination
• Northrop Frye in Conversation (an interview with David Cayley)
• The Eternal Act of Creation
• The Collected Works of Northrop Frye
• Northrop Frye on Religion

Other accomplishments

• edited fifteen books
• composed essays and chapters that appear in over sixty books
• wrote over one hundred articles and reviews in academic journals
• from 1950 to 1960 he wrote the annual critical and bibliographical survey of Canadian poetry for Letters in Canada, University of Toronto Quarterly