Northrop Frye's Bible
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Words With Power was published in 1990; it is the last of forty books of literary criticism written by its author, Northrop Frye, who died in January 1992 at the age of 78. A recent survey of 950 journals reveals that he remains the eighth most frequently cited author in the arts and humanities, among a company that includes Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Freud. A bibliography of his work and commentaries on it published in 1987 contains 2500 entries. As is suggested by this growing body of commentary, the criticism that Frye produced is not only literary but literature itself, and it is likely to survive as long as some of its subjects. Frye started his career as a divinity student and a preacher in the United Church of Canada but then took a Ph.D. in English liter ature and wrote his dissertation on the romantic poet and painter William Blake. Published in 1947 under the title Fearful Symme try, Frye's first book revealed an original and complex mythologi cal system of thought in the prophetic works which had previously been regarded as Blake's incomprehensible lunatic ravings. He also showed that the sources of Blake's vision could be found in a literary tradition that stemmed from the Bible and that Blake's life-
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