{"id":21048,"date":"2011-02-24T00:03:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T05:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=21048"},"modified":"2011-02-24T00:03:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T05:03:10","slug":"patrick-j-keane-a-frye-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/02\/24\/patrick-j-keane-a-frye-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick J. Keane: Frye in Sligo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/02\/frye-northrop-889.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21049\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/02\/frye-northrop-889.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/dgvcfaspring10.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/22\/convergences-memories-involving-the-waste-land-manuscript-an-essay-by-patrick-j-keane\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Convergences: Memories Involving <\/em>The Waste Land<em> Manuscript<\/em><\/a><em>,\u201d an essay by Patrick J. Keane in <\/em>Num\u00e9ro Cinq<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;. . . But to return to the summer of 1968: That August, I was in Sligo, Ireland, a student at the Yeats International Summer School. Along with my enthusiasm for Yeats, I bore greetings from one great scholar of Romanticism to another: from one of my current teachers, David Erdman, author of <em>Blake: Prophet Against Empire<\/em>, to the keynote lecturer at that year\u2019s Yeats gathering, Northrop Frye, at the time the most celebrated literary critic in the world, and the author of an equally formidable study of Blake, <em>Fearful Symmetry<\/em>. After Frye delivered his magisterial lecture on the imagery of Yeats, entitled \u201cThe Top of the Tower,\u201d I was one of those who flocked to the podium. But I stayed at the periphery, too shy to approach the great man. Later that evening, when Frye, followed by a small entourage, entered the dining room of the Imperial Hotel, he noticed me at a table and walked over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wanted to ask me a question this afternoon,\u201d he said. A fundamentally shy man himself, he had been sensitive enough to spot me on the fringe of the crowd after his lecture, and gracious enough to follow up. I stammered out my greeting from Professor Erdman. \u201cHow <em>is<\/em> David?\u201d Frye asked. I assured him he was well, and was amused when Northrop Frye made a comment symmetrical to that of David Erdman. Each declared the other\u2019s Blake study indispensable and each said he would not have been capable of writing the other\u2019s book. Later that evening, Frye\u2019s shyness was confirmed when I noticed him tenderly holding his wife\u2019s hand under the table during a dramatic performance, in a pub, of Brian Merriman\u2019s bawdy 18<sup>th<\/sup>-century poem, <em>The Midnight Court<\/em>. And five years later, he would confirm his graciousness by allowing me to print \u201cThe Top of the Tower,\u201d free of any permissions charge, in a collection of criticism on Yeats I edited for a volume in McGraw-Hill\u2019s Contemporary Studies in Literature series.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From \u201cConvergences: Memories Involving The Waste Land Manuscript,\u201d an essay by Patrick J. Keane in Num\u00e9ro Cinq &nbsp; &#8220;. . . But to return to the summer of 1968: That August, I was in Sligo, Ireland, a student at the Yeats International Summer School. 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