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.
