Paul Fry is the William Lampson Professor of English at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, a specialist in British Romantic

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

. He received his BA from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and his Ph.D. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

Major publications

*''Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are'' Yale University, 2008 *''The Poet's Calling in the English Ode'' Yale University Press, 1980 **Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society in America. **Reviews, in ''British Journal of Aesthetics'' 1981 21(2):178-180; *''The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in

Literary Theory Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, mo ...

'' Yale University Press, 1984, *''

William Empson Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first ...

: Prophet Against Sacrifice'' Routledge, 1990 *''A Defense of Poetry: Essays on the Occasion of Writing'' Stanford Univ Press, 1996 **Review: by Kolb, Jack in ''Philosophy and Literature'' - Volume 20, Number 2, October 1996, pp. 522–524 *(edited), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Bedford-St. Martins, 1999 *"Ezra Stiles's Idea of a University" ''Journal of Aesthetic Education, ''Vol. 36, No. 3 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 4–8 At Yale, he was master of

Ezra Stiles College Ezra Stiles College is one of the fourteen residential colleges at Yale University, built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. It is often simply called "Stiles," despite an early-1990s crusade by then-master Traugott Lawler to preserve the us ...

from 1995 to 2002.

References

External links

Paul Fry's Profile at Yale University
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