Quotes by Frye, Northrop

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he >>

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of >>

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitati >>

Quotations about Royalty

There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. >>

I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End i >>

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concen >>

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.

Frye, Northrop