Canadian · 1912–1991
Northrop Frye was the most influential literary critic Canada has produced, and one of the major critical theorists of the twentieth century. A professor at the University of Toronto for his entire career, his Anatomy of Criticism (1957) reshaped the study of literature internationally. The Bush Garden collects his periodic writings on Canadian culture and literature, and his 'Conclusion' to the Literary History of Canada is the essential diagnostic essay on the Canadian literary imagination.