First Al Purdy (Canada's greatest poet. Period) and now Northrop Frye (Canada's, perhaps North America's greatest literary critic). A statue of the great man will be unveiled soon at the Moncton Library to commemorate his centennial birthday.
I grew up on Frye (and McLuhan), in fact, am old enough to have attended his now legendary University of Toronto seminars but sadly didn't. Today I feel proud to be a student of Canadian literary studies, at least that once venerated modernist version of which Northrop Frye was its main pillar.
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It couldn’t have happened to a better man……of letters—Frye’s Fables of Identity was required reading for one of my graduate school classes at the University of Washington; in fact, I still have the book in my library and recently finished rereading much of it. That his Fearful Symmetry (1947) on Blake remains for many the standard-bearer in Blakean scholarship demonstrates just how great a critic he was.
Thanks, Vassilis
great as the man was Frye was, sadly, of an age that I see receding more and more into the night...
You and I, my friend, have to continue the great modernist fight.
I`m glad to hear about this unveiling! A man of great influence, he shaped my poetics. Yes to modernism!
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