Northrop Frye
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1957
Language
English
Description
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) was University Professor at the University of Toronto, where he was also professor of English at Victoria College. His books include Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake (Princeton). David Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature and director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University.
A landmark work of literary criticism
Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1947
Language
English
Description
This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the riddles of the longer poems, the so-called "Prophecies," and a demonstration of Blake's insight that will amaze the modern reader. The first section of the book shows how Blake arrived at a theory of...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©1986
Language
English
Description
Offers fresh insights into ten of Shakespeare's most popular plays: Romeo and Juliet, A midsummer night's dream, Richard II, Henry IV, Measure for measure, Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The winter's tale, and The tempest.