The Well-Tempered Critic (Frye)
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The Well-Tempered Critic is a collection of essays by a Canadian
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 literary critic Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye
Herman Northrop Frye, was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century....

. The collection was originally published in Bloomington, Indiana
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 by the Indiana University Press
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 in 1963.

The collection presents lectures delivered by Frye at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
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 in March 1961 for the Page-Barbour Foundation, with a certain amount of expansion and some revisions.
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