Herman northrop frye biography examples

Herman Northrop Frye, CC, MA, D.Litt., FRSC (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary critics and literary theorists of the twentieth century.

Frye was one of the academics, along with F. R. Leavis, I. A. Richards, William Empson and a few others who created the field of modern literary criticism in the English language. He is known for the sheer size and scope of his work which included an architectonic of the field of literary criticism in Anatomy of Criticism as well as two major works on The Bible.

Herman northrop frye biography examples

Biography

Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec but raised in Moncton, New Brunswick, Frye studied for his undergraduate degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He then studied theology at Emmanuel College (part of Victoria College).

After a brief stint as student minister in Saskatchewan, he was ordained as a minister of the United Church of Canada. He then studied at the University of Oxford, before returning to Victoria Colleg