Paul Fry (professor)
Paul Fry is the William Lampson Professor of English, emeritus, at Yale University, a specialist in British Romantic poetry.
Education and Career
Fry received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.He joined the teaching faculty at Yale in 1971, and was named William Lampson Professor of English in 1993. He was master of Ezra Stiles College from 1995 to 2002.
Fry delivered lectures for the course "Introduction to Theory of Literature" in spring 2009, which were recorded for The Open Yale Courses Series and have received significant viewership. He received a Kennedy Center Sondheim Award for teaching in 2011.
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 21:178-180;
- 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
- , "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, pp. 4–8