About this title: Northrop Frye's first book, published in 1947, is a study of the poetry of William Blake, who was a central figure to whom Frye later returned in essays and books. Blake represents two of Frye's enduring interests, the Bible and literature.
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1947
ISBN-13:9780691061658ISBN:0691061653
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Commercial library binding. ExLibrary with usual stamps and markings, but still a solid reading copy. 462 p. Includes notes, index. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780691012919ISBN:0691012911
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has light wear, small price sticker on front, spine uncreased, pages appear unmarked. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780691012919ISBN:0691012911
Description: Very Good; Cover has very minor scuff/curl at corners and edges. Several pages have underlining. 0691012911. Cover and text are unmarked and clean, except as noted.; 1.26 x 8.27 x 5.43 Inches; 472 pages. read more
Edition: Tenth Printing
Binding: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780691012919ISBN:0691012911
Description: Near Fine. Currently in print for $26.95. This copy is IMMIEDIATELY AVAILABLE. Some penciling on the beginning pages-otherwise as described. read more
Edition: Fourth Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780691012919ISBN:0691012911
Description: Very Good+ 8vo. 462 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white plates. The Chapters are: PART ONE: THE ARGUMENT: The Case Against Locke; The Rising God; Beyond Good and Evil; A Literalist of the Imagination; The Word Within the Word. PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYMBOLISM: Tradition and Experiment; The Thief of Fire; The Refiner in Fire; The Nightmare with Her Ninefold. PART THREE: THE FINAL SYNTHESIS: Comus Agonistes; ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 1969-04-01
ISBN-13:9780691012919ISBN:0691012911
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Edition: First paperback edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780691061658ISBN:0691061653
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. Pencil marks in margins on a few pages, otherwise tight & clean. "A magnificent, extraordinary book....Several great poets have written of Blake, but this book is the first to show the full magnitude of Blake's mind. "-The Spectator. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 1947-06
ISBN-13:9780691061658ISBN:0691061653
Description: Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. Book is bound upside down. Previous owner's nameplate on inside front cover, pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Free Delivery Confirmation! Ships same or next business day! read more
Edition: First Canadian Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780802089830ISBN:0802089836
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 1969. Paperback. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. No dust jacket. read more
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good + No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. PO name and Mickey Mouse stamp on inside front page. Rubbing to wrapper. One section of the text is tanned (cheaper paper must have been used). read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1969-04-01
ISBN-13:9780691012919ISBN:0691012911
Description: Good. Storage bend in book. Wear on cover edges. Clean pages with general wear from reading and storage. Cover may have slight curl or bend from reading. Some books have a bookstore stamp inside cover. Quick response! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1947
ISBN-13:9780691012919ISBN:0691012911
Description: Near Fine. Name of Prior Owner on FFEP Near Fine, Pages clean and bright, binding tight. Cover shows minor signs of shelf wear, No surprises. Same day Shipping. read more
"One of the two seminal works on Blake in the twentieth century, the second being Erdman's Prophet Against Empire. Frye's study of Blake led to his Anatomy of Criticism, a defining work within literary criticism in English. Frye's work is a study of Blake's symbols, approaching Blake's work as myth (as opposed to Erdman's, who reads Blake's work historically). It's still an excellent work for someone first venturing in to Blake's labyrinthine prophet works."
"Well... this book is alternately fascinating and frustrating, a long, discursive summary of "Blake's thought" as Frye sees it. Because of how labrynthine and involuted Blake's writing was - especially in the prophetic books - there are necessarily quite a few 25-30 page sections of pure summary, things like "Urothria is the son of Spooptapulus, wife of Borg, which means that the artistic imagination reigns supreme in the third dyad, blah blah blah." I just made those names up, but I'm going to guess that the effect of them is about the same as the effect of Blake's real counters on someone (like me) who hasn't read the thousands of pages of poetry/myth that Frye is describing. In other words, ka-what?
However, once Frye has laid the pieces in front of you, his hands are free for some amazing analysis. Essentially, he suggests that Blake's mythology illuminates a pattern that is repeated, not just in a few other world mythologies, but in all of them. So a close reading of Blake's canon provides a blueprint of the creative imagination.
Frye is a fantastic writer. Some of his statements are so fluent and persuasive that I almost forgot that I was studying Blake: after a certain point I was much more interested in what Frye's anatomizing intelligence could tell me about how poetry is made.
I don't know who I'd recommend this book too. Probably people with patience and a strong strain of intellectual masochism."
"Northrop Frye is one of those amazing literary critics no one's ever heard of. I first discovered him when handed a collection of lectures he gave on canadian radio. This is a very astute reading of Blake."
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