{"id":4040,"date":"2009-10-15T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2009-10-15T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:02:06","slug":"don-harron-my-frye-his-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/15\/don-harron-my-frye-his-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Harron: My Frye, His Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Don<\/p>\n

Some years ago one of Frye\u2019s former students, Don Harron<\/a>, sent me a copy of My Frye, His Blake<\/em>, saying that it had been rejected by a university press because it was not academic enough.\u00a0\u00a0 Harron\u2019s summary of Frye\u2019s Fearful Symmetry<\/em>, however, <\/em>was intended not for an academic audience but for the common reader.\u00a0 Harron calls his 279\u2011page summary a down\u2011sizing of Frye\u2019s complicated and sometime difficult exposition of Blake\u2019s prophecies.\u00a0 My Frye, His Blake<\/em> is an abridgement of Fearful Symmetry<\/em>. \u00a0It is not so much an effort to <\/em>simplify Frye as to make him more accessible to the nonspecialist by presenting, in Pound\u2019s phrase, the \u201cgists and piths\u201d of Frye\u2019s book\u2013\u2013a concentrated form of its argument, combining his own summaries with Frye\u2019s words.\u00a0 I\u2019m hopeful that it might yet find a publisher.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Harron\u2019s preface:<\/p>\n

\n

BEFORE BEGINNING<\/p>\n

To deal first with that somewhat presumptuous and proprietary title: I am one of Northrop Frye\u2019s former students, but can lay no special claim to him. \u00a0Like James Hilton\u2019s fictional \u201cMr. Chips<\/a>,\u201d he and his wife Helen remained childless throughout their lives, but bred thousands of devoted, surrogate progeny like myself, who considered them both as role models during that green island in our lives we call college days.<\/p>\n

I was heartened by the announcement that all of Frye\u2019s literary output is to be re-issued in a thirty\u2011volume collection. \u00a0At the same time I worried that his legacy might be confined to academic circles, and miss the larger public he freely sought during his lifetime. \u00a0This attempt of mine to summarize the first of his many books may be construed by some as a kind of Blake for Dummies<\/em>, but that is not my intention.<\/p>\n

The origin of My Frye, His Blake<\/em> stems from the first essay I ever wrote for the great man back in 1946. \u00a0I forget the subject of my paper, but I will never forget the mark he gave me.\u00a0 It was a C\u2011minus. \u00a0He added the words: \u201cThis is mostly B.S. , but you do have a gift for making complex ideas simple.\u201d \u00a0The latter half of that cryptic statement is the reason for this book.<\/p>\n

I was a freshman at Victoria College, University of Toronto, in 1942, but since I was enrolled in a course known as Sock and Fill (Social and Philosophical studies), I didn\u2019t have any lectures with Northrop Frye that first year. \u00a0It was months before I got to hear him in a public lecture on \u201cSatire: Theory and Practice.\u201d \u00a0I sat beside two nuns from St. Michael\u2019s College who rocked back and forth with delight as Frye quoted Pope and Swift and Dr. Johnson and added more than a few ripostes of his own.\u00a0 They nearly rolled in the aisle when he quoted Dante reaching the dead center of evil and passing through the arse of the Devil to the shores of Purgatory.<\/p>\n

When I returned to Vic in 1945 after two years\u2019 undistinguished service in the RCAF, it was general campus knowledge that the book Northrop Frye had been thinking about and writing for more than ten years was on the English poet and engraver William Blake (1757\u20131827). \u00a0Fearful Symmetry<\/em> is considered by many to be the most complex of Frye\u2019s writings. \u00a0It was his second book, the Anatomy of Criticism<\/em> written ten years later, that gave him his international reputation as a literary critic. \u00a0When I took courses with him in Spenser and Milton during my undergraduate years 1945\u201348, he was in the throes of preparing the Anatomy<\/em>, and a good deal of that book came out in his lectures to us.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I never had the opportunity of taking a Blake course with Frye, but when I finished reading Fearful Symmetry<\/em>, I felt that it was the most important book I had ever come across. \u00a0I can still remember the sensation of the hair rising on the back of my neck as I ploughed eagerly through its pages.\u00a0 I hope my truncated efforts can convey some of that excitement. \u00a0It is ironic that his wittily intelligent wife Helen Kemp Frye once confessed that she could never get through Fearful <\/em>Symmetry<\/em>.\u00a0 I dedicate this \u201cdown-sized\u201d attempt to her memory.<\/p>\n

Before I read this great book the only thing I knew about the writings of William Blake were a couple of lines from two familiar poems \u201cLittle Lamb who made thee?\u201d and \u201cTyger, tyger, burning bright.\u201d \u00a0It seems I shared this knowledge with the rest of the general public. \u00a0Unknown to me, and most of the rest of the world, were reams and reams of verse with the fierce savage vigor of Biblical prophecy, plus his marginal comments on the writings of other thinkers and painters, mostly of a seething ferocity.<\/p>\n

Fearful Symmetry<\/em> was published in 1947 by Princeton University Press. \u00a0There was no attempt to deal in detail with William Blake\u2019s painting or engraving, but it was a single-minded effort to bring to light some of the least read poetry in the world.\u00a0 It was not a Ph.D. thesis, or a \u201cPublish or Perish\u201d project to get to the next rung on the academic ladder: it was a personal crusade to vindicate one of the great neglected voices of English literature.<\/p>\n

Until Frye\u2019s treatment of Blake, most literary critics had written off this eighteenth-century poet as one of the minor pre-Romantics, the creator of a slim volume of lyrics anticipating but certainly not equaling Shelley and Byron and Keats. \u00a0They had completely ignored two thirds of Blake\u2019s output, consigning it to undeserved oblivion, and dismissing their author as a cultural hermit, a mystical snail who retreated from the harsh world of reality into the refuge of his own mind.\u00a0 Mystical in this sense implied \u201cmisty,\u201d wallowing in self-contemplation and obscurantism.<\/p>\n

To Frye, William Blake was not a mystic but\u00a0 a visionary\u2013\u2013a very different species.\u00a0 Most mystics achieve a direct apprehension of God very few times in their lives, and only after great efforts at contemplation and relentless self-discipline, by starving themselves or sitting high on a remote rock. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not so Blake, who wrote:<\/p>\n

I am in God\u2019s presence night & day.<\/em><\/p>\n

And he never turns his face away.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many of Blake\u2019s contemporaries thought he was completely mad. \u00a0William Wordsworth was one who thought so, although he had a suspicion that if Blake had bitten Sir Walter Scott or Robert Southey it might have improved their poetry. \u00a0Later, in the nineteenth century, when Romantic poets were treated like rock stars, it was felt that madness was part of artistic genius, a morbid secretion of society that could be cured\u00a0 homeopathically.\u00a0 Blake, on the other hand, considered that it was society that was mad, and not the artist. \u00a0Frye came to feel that this misunderstood man demonstrated the sanity of genius, contrasted with the madness of the commonplace mind.<\/p>\n

Everything that follows in this book is taken from Fearful Symmetry<\/em>, plus a couple of updates from Frye\u2019s remarks expressed in later years. What you read will be either Frye\u2019s own words or a precis of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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