First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more specific studies of literary works in roughly historical sequence. One of the essays is Fryes own elucidation of the development of his critical premises out of his early concern with the poetry of William Blake. Taken together, the essays offer a continuous and coherent argument, making a whole that is entirely equal to the sum of its parts.
Part 1: Contexts
1. The Instruments of Mental Production
2. The
Knowledge of Good and Evil
3. Speculation and Concern
4. Design as a Creative
Principle in the Arts
5. On Value-Judgements
6. Criticism: Visible and
Invisible
7. Elementary Teaching and Elemental Scholarship Part 2:
Applications
8. Varieties of Literary Utopias
9. The Revelation to Eve
10.
The Road to Excess
11. The Keys to the Gates
12. The Drunken Boat: The
Revolutionary Element in Romanticism
13. Dickens and the Comedy of Humours
14. The Problem of Spiritual Authority in the Nineteenth Century
15. The Top
of the Tower: A Study of the Imagery of Yeats
16. Conclusion to A Literary
History of Canada
Northrop Frye
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