
This collection of a dozen major essays written in recent year is vintage Frye--the fine distillation of a lifetime of originative thinking about literature and its context. The essays in Spiritus Mundi--the title comes from one of Yeat's best known poems, "The Second Coming,"...


This collection of a dozen major essays is vintage Frye - the fine distillation of a lifetime of originative thinking about literature and its context. The essays in Spiritus Mundi are arranged in three groups of four essays each. The first are about the "contexts of literature",...
