“The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life, then, is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in.”

About Northrop Frye

Literary Critic • Canadian

Northrop Frye was a highly influential Canadian literary critic and literary theorist. He gained international fame with his first book, Fearful Symmetry, which reinterpreted the poetry of William Blake. His subsequent...