I express my thanks to the following people for providing help of one kind or another: Germaine Warkentin, Thomas Willard, Jane Widdicombe, Nicholas Graham, James Carscallen, Alvin Lee, Robert Brandeis, Kristin Denham, Siobhan McMenemy, Jean O’Grady, Michael Dolzani, the two external readers of the manuscript, and the late Ron Schoeffel. Special thanks to my copy editor, Margaret Allen, and to Anne Laughlin, managing editor, whose steady hand has been guiding me through the publication of Frye’s Collected Works for more than twenty years now. The acknowledgment for permission to publish or to reprint is recorded in the headnote of each of the individual pieces.