{"id":7637,"date":"2010-01-23T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2010-01-23T00:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T04:00:34","slug":"northrop-frye-statement-for-the-day-of-my-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/01\/23\/northrop-frye-statement-for-the-day-of-my-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Frye: &#8220;Statement for the Day of My Death&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/frye-athlete.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7638\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/frye-athlete-716x1024.jpg\" alt=\"frye athlete\" width=\"258\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/frye-athlete-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/frye-athlete.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Norrie, aged 10, Pine Street, Moncton, New Brunswick<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Northrop Frye: 14 July 1912 &#8211; 23 January 1991<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship            and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more            intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense            of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent            professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known            to me had quite that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1991\/01\/25\/obituaries\/northrop-frye-78-literary-critic-theorist-and-educator-is-dead.html?pagewanted=1\" target=\"_blank\">Obituary<\/a>, The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norrie, aged 10, Pine Street, Moncton, New Brunswick Northrop Frye: 14 July 1912 &#8211; 23 January 1991 &#8220;The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebooks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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