Northrop Frye: A Visionary Life

In Northrop A Visionary Life, Joseph Adamson examines the life and career of a remarkable scholar and teacher and his quest for meaning in mythic forms and biblical symbolism. Highlights of this illustrated biography Frye’s boyhood in Eastern Canada; his dramatic encounter with the work of William Blake; the impact and importance of Anatomy of Criticism; Frye’s gradual development of a theory of culture; and his culminating achievement, after 20 years, of a comprehensive study of the poetic structures of the Bible.