Paul Fry (professor)

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Citizenship American Name Paul Fry		Role Professor

Alma mater University of California, Berkeley Harvard University Education Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley College Books Theory of Literature, Wordsworth and the poetry of, A defense of poetry, The Poet's Calling in the Englis, William Empson Similar People Samuel Taylor Coleridge, David Richter, John Paul Riquelme, Diana Hacker, Andrea Lunsford

Paul Fry is the William Lampson Professor of English at Yale University, a specialist in British Romantic poetry.

He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Major publications

Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are Yale University, 2008

The Poet's Calling in the English Ode Yale University Press, 1980

Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society in America.

Reviews, in British Journal of Aesthetics 1981 21(2):178-180;

The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory Yale University Press, 1984,

William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice Routledge, 1990

A Defense of Poetry: Essays on the Occasion of Writing Stanford Univ Press, 1996

Review: by Kolb, Jack in Philosophy and Literature - Volume 20, Number 2, October 1996, pp. 522–524

(edited), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Bedford-St. Martins, 1999

"Ezra Stiles's Idea of a University" Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 4–8

At Yale, he was master of Ezra Stiles College from 1995 to 2002.

Paul Fry has several 'literary theory' lectures available on YouTube.

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