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Notebooks
Title: Notebooks
Dates of Material:
1932,1942–[ca. 1984]
Extent:
0.74 m of textual records
NOTE(S)
Source of supplied title
Title based on form of the material.
Extent
The series is stored in 8 boxes.
Access restrictions
Restrictions on access: Access to 1991 box 25, Notebook 30R is restricted. For further information contact the Chief Librarian.
Finding aids
Item list available (see below).
| BOX | FILE | TITLE | YEAR | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
| 1988 | ||||
| 1988, Box 48 | ||||
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| 48 | 2 | Notes for a major project on the rationale of the English epic | [between 1957-1967] | 2 stenographer's notebooks in shorthand
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| 1991 | ||||
| 1991, Box 22 | ||||
| 22 | Notebook 1-2 | Notes and scenes from an original novel about Rev. Lyman Kennedy and Sarah Megill | 18 leaves, holograph [Part of notebook 2 appears in typescript in Box37/File 2: "Excerpt for an original novel"] | |
| 22 | Notebook 3 | Notes | July 26, 1946 | 65 numbered pages |
| 22 | Notebook 4 | Diary entries | July 12-October 1942 | Leaves 10-36 |
| 22 | Notebook 4 | Epigrams, notes for fiction-writing, vignettes | [ca. 1939] | Leaves 1-9 |
| 22 | Notebook 5 | "Quiet consummation / A Novel in sonata form ..." | Inside cover and leaf 1 | |
| 22 | Notebook 5 | Notes on music and musicians | Leaves 2-14 | |
| 22 | Notebook 6 | Diary entries for 1968 | 1968 | March 21: Eros, 5 leaves; June 21: Adonis, 4 leaves; September 21: Hermes, 4 leaves; December 21: Prometheus, 5 leaves; After December 30: Outline for a book, The Critical Path, 2 leaves |
| 22 | Notebook 7 | Notes for Anatomy of Criticism and diagrams | 1948 | [date on p. 30: 1948], 99 numbered pages |
| 22 | Notebook 8 | Material on Shakespeare | 1958 | notes for the Anatomy of Criticism, [date on p. 102: 1958], 103 numbered pages |
| 22 | Notebook 9 | Notes for the Alexander Lectures [Fools of Time] | 56 numbered pages prefixed Al | |
| 22 | Notebook 9 | Notes for the Bampton Lectures [A Natural Perspective] | 46 numbered pages prefixed Sh | |
| 22 | Notebook 9 | Notes for The Educated Imagination | 33 un-numbered pages | |
| 22 | Notebook 10 | Notes for a six-part book on romance | 32 numbered pages | |
| 1991, Box 23 | ||||
| 23 | Notebook 11a-11i | Notes primarily for The Great Code | 11a: 5 numbered pages, 11b: 21 leaves, 11c: 4 leaves, 11d: 4 leaves, 11e: 30 numbered pages, 11f: 112 numbered pages, 11g: 11 leaves, 11h: 7 leaves, 11i: 44 leaves | |
| 1991, Box 24 | ||||
| 24 | Notebook 12 | Notes | [196-] | 253 numbered pages |
| 24 | Notebook 13 | Notes on Shakespeare [for "How True a Twain"?]; draft of a book on T.S. Eliot; draft of the Alexander Lectures [Fools of Time]; outline of a book on Paradise Lost [The Return of Eden] | [196-] | 24 leaves + 13 numbered pages with suffix A |
| 24 | Notebook 14 | Notes about romance: William Morris, Chretien de Troyes, Parsifal; and part of a history of poetic imagery; outlines for writing projects | [196-] | 33 numbered pages + 31 leaves |
| 24 | Notebook 15 | Notes on belief and on progressing from one level of being to another | 23 leaves | |
| 24 | Notebook 16 | Notes on ancient Near Eastern astrological and biblical topics | 4 leaves | |
| 24 | Notebook 17 | Notes from Frye's Oxford days; outline of the English language; notes on Italian trip ["Two Italian sketches", Acta Victoriana]; Italian language lessons; and the musician William Byrd | 42 leaves | |
| 24 | Notebook 18 | Notes on a major project after the Anatomy of Criticism | 75 numbered pages | |
| 24 | Notebook 19 | Notes on various projects after the Anatomy of Criticism | [196-] | 201 numbered pages |
| 24 | Notebook 20 | Miscellaneous notes including an excerpt of Frye's response to the English Institute papers about his work (1965), material for an original story, and entries on James, music, Dante, Tolkien, Keats and Shelley among others | Includes 3 typewritten cards of excerpts from Purcell and Pepys, 61 leaves | |
| 24 | Notebook 21 | Notes about Frye's thoughts on religion and for the lectures on the Bible given at McGill University | Includes several keys to Frye's codes for various projects: e.g., pp. 53, 73], 202 numbered pages | |
| 24 | Notebook 22 | Notes for Frye's book on the Bible | 7 leaves | |
| 24 | Notebook 23 | Notes primarily about projects after The Great Code | [198-] | 14 leaves
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| 1991, Box 25 | ||||
| 25 | Notebook 24 | Outlines of several large projects | [ca. 1969] | a book on the Nomos and Logos visions and four books under the title of The Critical Comedy (the Bible and literature; conspectus of mythoi and themes; philosophy as conceptual displacement of myth; summarized history of English literature) 115 numbered pages |
| 25 | Notebook 25 | Notes | outline for a book of essays, two of which on Samuel Butler and ghosts still to be written, [most collected in Myth and Metaphor], 3 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 26 | Notebook divided between remarks on the Bible and a draft of a speech on Canadian culture | 14 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 27 | Notes made while Frye was writing the sequel to The Great Code | notebook completed by January 1, 1986, 160 numbered pages | |
| 25 | Notebook 28 | Notes on Frye's desire to write a "philosophical romance" | 1 leaf | |
| 25 | Notebook 29 | Remarks on several plays by Shakespeare | 3 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30A | Carlyle | 3 leaves + 4 leaves laid in | |
| 25 | Notebook 30B | Arnold | 8 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30C | Mill | 7 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30D | III. [Material relating to the first and third essays of the Anatomy of Criticism] | 10 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30E | II. [Material relating to the second essay of the Anatomy of Criticism] | 21 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30F | IV. [An early outline of part of the Anatomy of Criticism] | 3 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30G | Six. [Notes in ink for the fourth essay of the Anatomy of Criticism; cancelled notes in pencil concern language, mythology, Shakespeare] | 18 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30H | Seven. [Outline for chapter 6 in the original plan of the Anatomy of Criticism; notes for encyclopedic works: epics, the Bible] | 2 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30I | Nine. [Notes for the Anatomy of Criticism] | 3 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30J | Ten. [An original plan for a part of the Anatomy of Criticism; notes about Yeats on poetic language, Babel] | 6 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30K | ["The prevalence of metrical features..."; notes about rhetoric, myth; material for the Anatomy of Criticism] | 2 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30L | ["Chapter Three: Theory of Anagogy..."; notes on the organization of a large part of the Anatomy of Criticism which was subsequently radically changed] | 14 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30M | ["Notice. For the purposes of this novel..."; notes for a novel; notes on Blake, Jung and William Morris; notes on the Anatomy of Criticism] | 15 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30N | M. [Notes on language] | 5 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30O | R. [Notes on comedy; early version of an essay on education "There is a distinction..." published in 1947?] | 11 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30P | ["26cf. Yeats and Blakes's..."; draft introduction for a collection of essays on Blake] | 14 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30Q | Exodus bibliography. [An early outline for the Anatomy of Criticism, an "Organon for Advanced Criticism"] | 12 leaves | |
| 25 | Notebook 30R RR | Leviticus bibliography. [Notes on Spengler; autobiographical notes] | 12 leaves. Restricted. | |
| 1991, Box 26 | ||||
| 26 | Notebook 31 | ["Frye"; "The problem of Yeats...". Notes on Yeats and William Morris, Joyce, Butler, Shaw] | 15 leaves + one laid in | |
| 26 | Notebook 32 | ["Frye"; "The things that worry me...". Notes on a grand writing project. Rencontre, Mirage, and Ignoramus serve as titles for three projected books. Frye uses symbols noted in notebook 21 to refer to the various books] | 39 numbered pages | |
| 26 | Notebook 33 | ["Frye"; "Several points about the Arabian Nights...". Miscellaneous notes on the tripartite writing project mentioned in #32 with the addition of a fourth part Anticlimax; early plans for the Anatomy of Criticism referred to by symbol] | 19 numbered pages + 3 leaves | |
| 26 | Notebook 34 | ["Frye"; "If there is such a thing as a key to my...". Entries on diverse topics; outline for a 12-chapter book, probably an original plan for the Anatomy of Criticism] | 16 leaves | |
| 26 | Notebook 35 | "The best organization for Part Two..." | 76 leaves | |
| 26 | Notebook 35-38 | [Notes for and drafts of the Anatomy of Criticism] | ||
| 26 | Notebook 36 | "The structure of the book has now settled..." | 78 numbered pages + 14 leaves | |
| 26 | Notebook 37 | "I think of this notebook as concerned..." | 15 numbered pages + 62 leaves | |
| 26 | Notebook 38 | "I think I have now the opening section..." | 35 numbered pages + 60 leaves | |
| 26 | Notebook 39 | [Cover label: "Frye / 16th & 17th Centuries"; lecture notes and material for book] | 51 leaves | |
| 26 | Notebook 40 | [Cover label: "H.N. Frye / 19th century"; notes for a course on 19th century thought] | 23 leaves | |
| 26 | Notebook 41 | ["I have just finished Surtees' Handley Cross..."; notes on fox-hunting described in the novel Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrock's Hunt, 1926, by Robert Smith Surtees] | 1 leaf | |
| 1993 | ||||
| 1993, Box 1 | ||||
| 1 | Notebook 1 | Notes on ideas for Words with Power and plans for subsequent books | [before 1986] | 216 numbered pages |
| 1 | Notebook 2 | Notes on Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso | [after 1957] | 47 numbered pages |
| 1 | Notebook 2 | Notes on Henry James | 1 leaf | |
| 1 | Notebook 3 | Notes on mythical themes for a project | [ca. 1965] | 3 leaves |
| 1 | Notebook 3 | Notes relating to lectures at Emmanuel College [The Double Vision] | [ca. 1987] | 5 leaves |
| 1 | Notebook 4 | Notes for Words with Power and for lectures | [ca. 1987] | 5 leaves |
| 1 | Notebook 5 | Miscellaneous notes | [ca. 1987] | 3 leaves |
| 1 | Notebook 6 | Draft of a lecture on Henry James ["Henry James and the comedy of the occult"] | [ca. 1989] | |
| 1 | Notebook 6 | Draft of a talk on Canada | ||
| 1 | Notebook 6 | Draft of response to Beyond Communication, ed. Deanne Bogdan and Stanley B. Straw | [ca. 1990] | |
| 1 | Notebook 6 | Notes on Henry James, Turn of the Screw | ||
| 1 | Notebook 6 | Notes on reading and teaching | ||
| 1 | Notebook 6 | Notes relating to drafts of Words with Power | [ca. 1987] | |
| 1 | Notebook 6 | Notes relating to Words with Power and possibly The Double Vision | [ca. 1987] | 35 leaves |
| 2013.01 | ||||
| 2013.01, Box 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | Notebook with entries relating to various thoughts/ideas, primarily literary | 1932 | |
