ABSTRACT
Northrop Frye (b. 1912) was born in Canada and studied at Toronto University and Merton College, Oxford, moving into the field of literature after beginning as a student of theology. His first major publication was Fearful Symmetry: a study of William Blake (1947), but it was the Anatomy of Criticism (1957) that firmly established him as one of the most brilliant, original and influential of modern critics.
