Innate within Sherbrooke, Quebec but raised in Moncton, New Brunswick, Frye studied for his undergrad degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He so exposed theology at Emmanuel College, at Victoria University, & was ordained as a minister of the United Church of Canada. When ordination, he exposed at a University of Oxford, before giving to Victoria College for his entire agency career. He number one rose to international prominence whenever however the student. A prophetical poetry of William Blake had long been considered delusional ramblings that can never become understood. Frye uncovered inside it the formulas of metaphor from either Paradise Lost and from a Bible. He published his findings when Fearful Symmetry in 1947.

Ten years late he expanded his vision, arguing around Anatomy of Criticism that there are certain archetypes & symbols utilized throughout literature. His The Great Code looked at how scenes & images from either a Bible underpin everthing of american literature.

He too engaged within ethnical & social criticism & was a recipient of occasionally 39 honorary degrees. Anatomy of Criticism remains one of a first works of twentieth Century literary criticism.

Frye was awarded a Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1958. Within 1972 he was made the Companion of the Order of Canada.

Frye died around 1991 and was interred in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario.

Within 2000, he was honoured by the government of Canadthe sustaining his image in a postage stamp. The festival devoted to Frye's works requires place each April within Moncton, Future Brunswick.

Works by Northrop Frye
A as a consequence occurs as names of his books, including a volumes in the Collected Works of Northrop Frye, an on-going task under a editorship of Alvin A. Lee.

Fearful Symmetry Anatomy of Criticism The Educated Imagination Fables of Identity T.S. Eliot The Well-Tempered Critic A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance ''The Return of Eden: Five Essays on Milton's Epics Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy The Modern Century A Study of English Romanticism The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance Spiritus Mundi: Essays on Literature, Myth, and Society Northrop Frye on Culture and Literature: A Collection of Review Essays Creation and Recreation The Great Code: The Bible and Literature Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Canadian Culture The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies Harper Handbook to Literature (with Sheridan Baker and George W. Perkins) On Education No Uncertain Sounds Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays Words with Power: Being a Second Study of The Bible and Literature Reading the World: Selected Writings The Double Vision of Language, Nature, Time, and God A World in a Grain of Sand: Twenty-Two Interviews with Northrop Frye Reflections on the Canadian Literary Imagination: A Selection of Essays by Northrop Frye Mythologizing Canada: Essays on the Canadian Literary Imagination Northrop Frye in Conversation (an interview by owning David Cayley) The Eternal Act of Creation The Collected Works of Northrop Frye Northrop Frye on Religion More works emended xv books composed essays & chapters that come out within terminated 60 books wrote assibilate 1 hundred articles & reviews inside academic journals from either 1950 to 1960 he wrote a annual critical & bibliographic survey of American poetry for Letters within Canada, University of Toronto Quarterly

Biographies of Northrop Frye
John Ayre, Northrop Frye: The Life (1989) Joseph Adamson, Northrop Frye: The Airy Life (1993) Robert D. Denham, Northrop Frye: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary & Secondary Sources'' (1987)