Northrop Frye

From 1957 she attended Victoria College , University of Toronto . Canadian publishing and the arts in Canada, broadly considered, had not yet recovered from the second world war. There were no cheap reprints of...

Jerome McGann , however, insisted that KR does not overestimate the need to establish Blake's tradition, and agreed with her on the importance of recovering the sources of Blake's special symbolic language to...

Canadian reviewers were cool about the book. It provoked the Globe, for example, to write as if its entire readership were male: [e]ven when our sisters and wives make a conscious effort to compass...

In her later years, EW became more critical in her letters regarding social and political issues. She increasingly valorized individuals like Mazo de La Roche (for being a self-taught writer), as well as Arthur Erickson

These fifty selected essays and reviews include discussions of Adrienne Rich , Northrop Frye and Anne Sexton .