Works Cited & Consulted
Bibliography

Biographies, Correspondence & Interviews with Northrop Frye

Adamson, Joseph. Northrop Frye: A Visionary Life. ECW Press, 1993.

Ayre, John. Northrop Frye: A Biography. Random House, 1989.

Bogdan, Deanne. “Moncton, Mentors, and Memories.” A World in a Grain of Sand: Twenty-Two Interviews with Northrop Frye, edited by Robert B. Denham, Peter Lang, 1991, pp. 323–341.

Cayley, David. Northrop Frye in Conversation. House of Anansi Press, 1992.

Denham, Robert D. “‘Moncton, Did You Know?’ Northrop Frye’s Early Years.“ Verticals of Frye: the Northrop Frye Lectures and Related Talks Given at the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival, edited by Edward Lemond, 2005, pp. 23–34.

Edgar, Pelham. “Northrop Frye.” Across My Path, edited by Northrop Frye, Ryerson Press, 1952, pp. 83–89.

Frye, Northrop. Interviews with Northrop Frye, edited by Jean O’Grady. Collected Works of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 2008.

—. The Northrop Frye Quote Book, edited by John Robert Colombo, Dundurn, 2014.

Frye, Northrop. “Notebook III.” Northrop Frye’s Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts, edited by Robert D. Denham. Collected Works of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp. 3–71.

Frye, Northrop, and Helen Kemp Frye. The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932–1939, edited by Robert D. Denham. Collected Works of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 1996.

Salusinszky, Imre. Criticism in Society: Interviews with Jacques Derrida, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Frank Kermode, Edward Said, Barbara Johnson, Frank Lentricchia, and J. Hillis Miller. Methuen, 1987.

Woodcock, George. “Frye, Northrop.” The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, edited by William Toye, Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 282–284.

Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp Frye, 1937.

Reminiscences & Tributes

Atwood, Margaret. “Norrie Banquet Ode.” The Legacy of Northrop Frye, edited by Robert D. Denham and Alvin A. Lee. University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. 171–173.

Atwood, Margaret. “Tribute: A Service in Memory of H. Northrop Frye.” Vic Report, vol. 19, no. 3, 1991, p. 7.

Atwood, Margaret. “The Great Communicator.” The Globe and Mail, 24 January 1991, p. C1.

Boyd, Diana. “Escalating Insight into a Subway Friend: Probably the Big Reason He Enjoyed Talking to Me was that I Didn’t Know and Didn’t Care Who He was.” The Globe and Mail, 25 April 2001, p. A18.

Denham, Robert D. Remembering Northrop Frye: Recollections by His Students and Others in the 1940s and 1950s. McFarland & Company, 2011.

Kristeva, Julia. “The Importance of Northrop Frye.” The Legacy of Northrop Frye, edited by Robert D. Denham and Alvin A. Lee. University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. 335–337.

Macpherson, Jay.“The Anagogic Man.” Poems Twice Told: The Boatman & Welcoming Disaster. Oxford University Press, 1981, p. 42.

Reaney, James. “Northrop Frye: He Educated Our Imagination.” Toronto Star, 24 January 1991, p. A27.

Warkentin, Germaine. “The Loss of Northrop Frye.” 23 January 1991. Humanist Discussion Group, vol. 4, no. 0926.

Acta Victoriana Board, 1943. Photograph by Pasquale D’Angelo, Toronto.

Interpretations of Frye’s Literary & Poetic Criticism

Bates, Ronald. Northrop Frye. McClelland and Stewart, 1971.

Bentley, G.E., Jr. “Blake on Frye and Frye on Blake.” The Legacy of Northrop Frye, edited by Alvin A. Lee and Robert D. Denham, University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. 177–189.

Denham, Robert D. The Northrop Frye Handbook: A Biographical and Bibliographic Guide. McFarland, 2012.

—.The Reception of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 2021.

Dubois, Diane. Northrop Frye in Context. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Esterhammer, Angela. Introduction. Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake, by Northrop Frye. Collected Works of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 2005, pp. xvii–xxxiv.

Gill, Glen Robert. Northrop Frye and the Phenomenology of Myth. University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Halmi, Nicholas. Preface. Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake, by Northrop Frye. Collected Works of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp. ix–xiii.

Rampton, David. Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old. University of Ottawa Press, 2009.

Singer, Ian. Introduction. Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake, by Northrop Frye. Collected Works of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp. xxii–1.

Northrop Frye in his office. Photograph by Robert Landsdale, Etobicoke.

Reviews of Fearful Symmetry

Bewell, Alan. Review of Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake, edited by Nicholas Halmi. University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1, 2006, pp. 383–385.

Davies, Blodwen. “I Give You the End of a Golden String.” The Beacon, no. 36, February 1948, pp. 314–319.

Deacon, William Arthur. “Masterly Interpretation of William Blake’s Poems.” The Globe and Mail, 17 May 1947, p. 12.

Keynes, Geoffrey. “The Poetic Vision.” Time and Tide, no. 28, 27 December 1947, p. 1394.

Sitwell, Edith. “Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. By Northrop Frye.” The Spectator, vol. 179, issue 6224, 10 October 1947, p. 466.

Northrop Frye and Alexandra Johnston, Charter Day Convocation, 14 October 1986.

Books by Northrop Frye

Frye, Northrop. The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. 2nd ed., House of Anansi, 1995.

—. Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. Princeton University Press, 1947.

—.“Prefatory Statements and Acknowledgments.” Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton University Press, 1971, pp. 3–4.

—. The Great Code: the Bible and Literature. Academic Press Canada, 1982.

—. Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974–1988, edited by Robert D. Denham. University Press of Virginia, 1990.

—. Northrop Frye on Canada, edited by Jean O’Grady and David Staines. Collected Works of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 2003.

—. Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, 1936–1989: Unpublished Papers, edited by Robert D. Denham. Collected Works of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 2002.

—. Northrop Frye’s Lectures: Student Notes from His Courses, 1947–1955, edited by Robert D. Denham. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016.

—. Northrop Frye’s Student Essays, 1932–1938, edited by Robert D. Denham. Collected Works of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 1997.

—. Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth and Society. Indiana University Press, 1976.

— “Poetry and Design in William Blake.” Northrop Frye on Milton and Blake, edited by Angela Esterhammer. Collected Works of Northrop Frye. University of Toronto Press, 2016, pp. 212–220.

—. Words with Power: Being a Second Study of “The Bible and Literature.” Viking, 1990.

Frye, Northrop, et al. Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications. University of Nebraska Press, 1963.

Northrop Frye with Margaret Atwood on the occasion of her receiving an honorary degree from the University of Toronto, 1983. Photograph by Robert Landsdale, Etobicoke.

Criticism, Bibliographies & Exhibition Catalogues Associated with the Work & Artistry of William Blake

Bentley, G.E., Jr. Boondoggles: Travels of a Restless Professor. Friesen Press, 2018.

—. William Blake: the Critical Heritage. Routledge, 1975.

Bentley, G.E., Jr., and Martin K. Nurmi. A Blake Bibliography: Annotated Lists of Works, Studies, and Blakeana. University of Minnesota Press, 1964.

Blake, William, et al. William Blake: Visionary. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2020.

Brandeis, Robert C. William Blake & His Contemporaries: An Exhibition Selected from the Bentley Collection at Victoria University. Victoria University Library, 2006.

Brandeis, Robert C., and Karen Mulhallen. Remember Me! Blake in Our Time: A Keepsake Book in Celebration of an Exhibition and Symposium on the Life and Art of William Blake (1757–1827). Victoria University Library, 2010.

Erdman, David V., and John E. Grant, editors. Blake’s Visionary Forms Dramatic. Princeton University Press, 1970.

Harris, Maureen Scott. “William Blake Illuminated: Victoria Library Receives Bentley Collection of Blake Masterpieces.” Vic Report, vol. 35, no. 1, 2006, pp. 6–9.

Myrone, Martin. William Blake. Tate Publishing, 2019.

Natarajan, Uttara. “William Blake (1757–1827).” The Romantic Poets: A Guide to Criticism, Blackwell, 2007, pp. 4–62.

Natoli, Joseph. Twentieth-Century Blake Criticism: Northrop Frye to the Present. Garland, 1982.

Whittaker, Jason. Divine Images: the Life and Work of William Blake. Reaktion Books, 2021.