The Well-Tempered Critic is a collection of essays by the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye. The collection was originally published in Bloomington, Indiana, by the Indiana University Press in 1963.
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The collection presents lectures delivered by Frye at the University of Virginia in March 1961 for the Page-Barbour Foundation, with a certain amount of expansion and some revisions.
References
edit- Frye, Northrop. The Well-Tempered Critic; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-20077-6
- Frye, Northrop. The Well-Tempered Critic; Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, ISBN 0-88902-746-3 (1983 re-issue)