Abbreviations

Between 1947 and 1991 Northrop Frye’s writings generally appeared in three forms: as individual books (Anatomy of Criticism, Words with Power), as lecture series or collections of essays presented as a unified whole (The Critical Path, The Modern Century), and as collections of miscellaneous essays and lectures assembled to focus on related issues (The Bush Garden, Spiritus Mundi). Then in 1996, the thirty volumes of Frye’s Collected Works began to appear. To make it easier for readers to consult his writings in whichever version is at hand, the references in this centennial issue include, wherever possible, both forms of publication. Typical examples are:

To single volumes specifically referred to in the essays: (AC, 22; CW 22: 23) that is, page 22 of the original Anatomy; page 23 of the Anatomy as edited in volume 22 of the Collected Works.

Where the Collected Works is the best source for individual essays, references appear in a form such as: (‘Speculation and Concern,’ CW 7: 253).

The Notebooks and much other unpublished material appear only in the Collected Works; thus, CW 5: 25, for example, signifies Late Notebooks, volume 5 of the Collected Works, page 25.

Single Works or Special Codes

AC: The Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1957

BG: The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: Anansi 1971

CP: The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 1971

DV: The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1991

EC: The Eternal Act of Creation: Essays 1979–1990. Ed Robert D. Denham. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 1993

EI: The Educated Imagination. Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1963

FS: Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1947

GC: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature. Toronto: Academic Press Canada 1982

LHC1: ‘Conclusion’ to the Literary History of Canada. Ed Carl Klinck et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1965. Known as ‘the first Conclusion’

LHC2: ‘Conclusion’ to the Literary History of Canada. Second edition, revised. 3 vols. Ed Carl Klinck et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1965. Known as ‘the second Conclusion’

MC: The Modern Century. Toronto: Oxford University Press 1967

NFF: Northrop Frye Fonds, E.J. Pratt Library, Victoria University in the University of Toronto

NP: A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance. New York: Columbia University Press 1965

SeS: The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1976

SL: Northrop Frye: Selected Letters, 1934–1991. Ed Robert D. Denham. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers 2009

WTC: The Well-Tempered Critic. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press 1963

WP: Words with Power: Being a Second Study of the Bible and Literature. Markham, ON: Viking 1990

Collected Works

(All volumes are published by the University of Toronto Press)

CW 1 and 2: The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932–1939. Ed Robert D. Denham (2 vol., 1996)

CW 3: Northrop Frye’s Student Essays, 1932–1938. Ed Robert D. Denham (1997)

CW 4: Northrop Frye on Religion: Excluding the Great Code and Words with Power. Ed Alvin A. Lee and Jean O’Grady (2000)

CW 5 and 6: Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World. Ed Robert D. Denham (2 vols., 2000)

CW 7: Northrop Frye’s Writings on Education. Ed Jean O’Grady and Goldwin French (2001)

CW 8: The Diaries of Northrop Frye, 1942–1955. Ed Robert D. Denham (2001)

CW 9: The ‘Third Book’ Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964–1972: The Critical Comedy. Ed Michael Dolzani (2002)

CW 10: Northrop Frye on Literature and Society. Ed Robert D. Denham (2002)

CW 11: Northrop Frye on Modern Culture. Ed Jan Gorak (2003)

CW 12: Northrop Frye on Canada. Ed Jean O’Grady and David Staines (2003)

CW 13: Northrop Frye’s Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts. Ed Robert D. Denham (2003)

CW 14: Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. Ed Nicholas Halmi (2004)

CW 15: Northrop Frye’s Notebooks on Romance. Ed Michael...