Volume 39, Number 7 · April 9, 1992
Mister Myth
By Denis Donoghue
Words With Power: Being a Second Study of 'The Bible and Literature'
by Northrop Frye
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 342 pp., $10.95 (paper)
The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion
by Northrop Frye
University of Toronto Press, 88 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Reading the World: Selected Writings, 1935–1976
by Northrop Frye, edited by Robert D. Denham
Peter Lang, 416 pp., $72.00
Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974–1988
by Northrop Frye, edited by Robert D. Denham
University Press of Virginia, 386 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Here are the final works of a major critic, product of an unusual combination of gifts and convictions. He was a Canadian, a Christian, a priest, and something of a sage. As Auden wrote of Yeats, he has become his admirers. Northrop Frye was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, on July 14, 1912, and died in Toronto last March. He received his primary and secondary education in Moncton, New Brunswick, entered Victoria College of the University of Toronto in 1929 as a student of Philosophy and English, and studied Theology at Emmanuel College, Toronto. Brought up as a Methodist, he was ordained in the United Church of Canada, a church formed in 1925 by union of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational churches of Canada.
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