Northrop Frye on Religion, Vol. 4 FROM THE PUBLISHER
The late Northrop Frye is Canada's best-known literary and cultural critic, and
one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime,
Frye developed a profoundly religious epistemology that informed and infused
much of what he wrote. In bringing together his writings on the Bible and
religion, this volume offers many keys to the dynamic essence of Frye's thought.
Well-organized, insightfully introduced, and carefully edited, this scholarly,
annotated edition covers nearly the full range of Frye's intensive intellectual
work on religion. The writings presented here span a period of fifty-seven years and range from prayers to convocation addresses. Although remarkably diverse in form and content, they reveal the splendid coherence of Frye's vision.
This is a quintessential volume in the Collected Works, indispensable to all who
have been inspired by Frye's work. In it we find the brilliant and often
unorthodox record of a great mind imaginatively open to the transforming
power of the Bible, and open also to what William Blake called "the human form divine."
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