Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 - 1991) was one of the most distinguished literary critics of the 20th century.

Born Herman Northrop Frye in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, he spent his entire career, including his undergraduate days, at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Internationally recognized for his work on William Blake, literary theory, and cultural and social criticism, he was the recipient of some 39 honorary degrees. His Anatomy of Criticism remains one of the most important works of 20th Century criticism. Here 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.

Works by Northrop Frye

• 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