puppet, 80
seasonal, 32
of seeing and hearing, 355–6
in square root, 342
swallowing, 249
Micaiah, 333
Michaud, Régis (1880–1939), 23, 389n.26
Michelangelo (1475–1564), 109
Microcosmography (Earle), 37
Middle Ages, 55
Middleton, Thomas (ca. 1570–1627), 413n.6
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 144, 159, 217, 269, 304, 317, 338, 375
Mikado, The (Gilbert and Sullivan), 390n.36
Mill, James (1773–1836), 290
Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873), 30
Milton, John (1608–1674), xiv–xv, xxviii, xxxii, 7, 24, 44, 46–7, 52, 53, 54, 57, 59, 62, 67, 72, 108, 135, 140, 331, 347, 350, 379, 383–4
Milton (Blake), 364
Miró, Joan (1893–1983), 101
Miss Julie (Strindberg), 152
Modern Century, The (Frye), 306
Modern Poetry and the Tradition (Brooks), 90, 393n.7
modes, theory of literary, 323
Modest Proposal, A (Swift), 302
Mohammedanism, 49
Molière (1622–1673), 32
Moltke, Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von (1800–1891), 52
Moncton, New Brunswick, xxxi
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533–1592), 9, 37, 76
Montanus’ Vow (Lodge), 147
Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven), 44
Moonstone, The (Collins), xxiv, xxv, 177–81
More, Thomas (1478–1535), 99
Morning at the Window (Eliot), 388n.7
Morris, William (1834–1896), xxiv, xxvi, xxxii, 224, 261, 266–85, 331, 341, 380–1
Mother-goddess, 94
movies, xxxi
silent, 322
Mowat, Farley (1921–2014), 358–9
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–1791), 39, 54, 318
Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service (Eliot), 66, 388n.16
Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare), 144, 168
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot), 92
Murray, Margaret Alice (1863–1963), 246, 407n.54
Murry, John Middleton (1889–1957), 27
music: atonal tendency, 45–6
binary form, 186
Bolero, 25–6
Cassiodorus’s views of, 62
ensemble vs. virtuoso performances, 55
as the epitome of life, 59
ethereal vs. atmospheric, 25
Frye’s teacher, 353
jazz, 22
Liszt and Beethoven’s, 19
major and minor concords, 46
need for a twentieth-century Gilbert and Sullivan, 28
poetic and piano analogies, 54
Protestant conceptions of, 60
Rachmaninoff, 50
Ravel and Mozart, 25
review of Dubinsky recital, 44–5
Sullivan’s The Lost Chord, 18
as temporal and spatial form, 355
thematic returns similar to critical repetitions, 347
theory of “musical” verse, 44
of the two worlds of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 375
in The Winter’s Tale, 191
works of fundamental authority, 323
Mysteries of Udolpho, The (Radcliffe), 183
mystery, 40, 62, 64, 72, 162, 175, 185, 211, 288, 318, 322, 353
myth, 56, 107, 124, 170, 173, 335, 345, 361, 366
Actaeon, 216
Adonis, 189
alienation, 287
Beowulf, 334
Cupid and Psyche, 139
Demeter renewal-of-nature, 375
of the fall, 124
fascist, 279
Frankenstein, 94
and history, 364
hollow-land, 381
of infallibility, 87
of king’s threshold, 110
of mother hiding child, 375
narrative form of, 365
open, 325
pastoral, 178
Pluto-Proserpine, 233
of the spiritual Father, 366
as structural element of literature, 111, 323
of virgin-eating dragon, 88
“Myth, Fiction, and Displacement” (Frye), 111, 402n.2
mythological universe, 336, 348, 349, 350
mythology: as containing a universal language, 325
fulfilled by poetry, 102
leading to literature, 106
literature as displaced, 111
Norse, 265
primate, 309
as a reservoir of belief, 94
revolutionary, 270
totality of a society’s myths, 124
Nabokov, Vladimir (1899–1977), 359
Nashe, Thomas (1567–1601), 14, 220
Nathan, Robert (1894–1985), xxx, 387n.3
“Natural and Revealed Communities” (Frye), 425n.29
Natural Perspective, A (Frye), xx
“Nature and Homer” (Frye), 111, 402n.3
Nature’s Questioning (Hardy), 42
Necessary Angel, The (Stevens), 112
“Neoclassical Agony” (Frye), 78–84
New Bearings in English Poetry (Leavis), 393n.7
New Comedy, 134, 145, 164, 176, 179, 240, 349
“New Directions from Old” (Frye), 111, 402n.4
New Testament, 18
New Yorker (magazine), 42
Newfoundland Verse (Pratt), 353–4
News for the Delphic Oracle (Yeats), 175
News from Nowhere (Morris), 279
Newton, Sir Isaac (1641–1727), xxviii, xxx, 384, 416n.7
Next Time, The (James), xxx
Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900), 12, 110, 401n.53
Nightingale, Florence (1820–1910), 45
Nightmare, Witches and Devils (Jones), 409n.73
Norden, Eduard (1868–1941), 174
Northrop Frye on Literature and Society, xvii
“Notebook 13” (Frye), xix, 89–95
“Notes for The Double Vision” (Frye), 363–7
“Notes on Miscellaneous Subjects” (Frye), 368–81
“Notes on Romance” (Frye), xxiii–xxvii, 138–314
“Notes on the Massey Lectures, Yeats, and Other Topics” (Frye), 97–110
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (Eliot), 83, 92, 394n.16
Nowlan, Alden (1933–1983), 331, 410n.3
O’Connor, Eric, Fr. (1907–1980), 315, 318, 320, 324, 325–6, 330, 333–4, 336–8, 340–4, 346
Ode on a Grecian Urn (Keats), 364, 404n.3, 412n.6
Odyssey, The (Homer), 188, 335, 401n.56
Oedipus, 16, 107, 109, 323, 328, 368
Offenbach, Jacques (1819–1880), 10
O’Hara, Martin, 315, 330, 332–3, 335–7, 340, 342, 346
“Old and New Comedy” (Frye), 404n.13, 411n.8
Old Comedy, 349
Oliphant, Margaret, 387n.3
Omand, Douglas N., 120
“On Finnegans Wake” (Frye), 96, 113
On the Sublime and Beautiful (Burke), 53
“On T.S. Eliot and Other Observations” (Frye), 89–95
“On Value-Judgments” (Frye), 134, 403n.3
Ong, Walter (1912–2003), xi, 348
Opus Posthumous (Stevens), 351, 410n.4
Orchestra (Davies), 62
Origin of Species (Darwin), 31
Orphism, 173
Orwell, George (1903–1950), 364
Ossian (James Macpherson) (1736–1796), 85, 193, 207–8
Othello (Shakespeare), 14–15, 187
Our Lady’s Child, 153
Ovid (43 B.C.E.–17 C.E.), 140
Owl and the Nightingale, The, 65
Ozymandias, 365
Paleface (Lewis), xix
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (ca. 1525–1594), 60
Paltock, Robert (1697–1767), 287, 408n.64
Pamela (Richardson), 405n.16
Pandosto (Greene), xxiv, 149–52
Paracelsus (1493–1541), 305
Paradise Lost (Milton), 59, 67, 92, 135, 331
Paradise Regained (Milton), 172, 350
Pardoner’s Tale, The (Chaucer), 284–5, 295
Pareto, Vilfredo (1848–1923), 28
parody, xv, 4, 5, 18, 25, 38, 41, 79, 80, 87, 168, 188, 214, 228, 302, 346
Parry, Sir Hubert (1848–1918), 412n.3
Parthenius of Nicaea (d. 14 C.E.), xxiv, 164–7
Pasternak, Boris (1890–1960), xviii, 85–8, 359
Pater, Walter (1839–1894), 33, 34, 51, 90
Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan), 390n.36
Pattern of Painful Adventures, The (Twine), 406n.27
Patterns of Culture (Benedict), 321
Paz, Octavio (1914–1998), 341
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785–1866), 88, 102
Pearl, The, 64
Pepys, Samuel (1633–1703), 37
perestroika, 360–1
Pericles (Shakespeare), 144, 152, 162, 164, 310, 311, 326, 344, 372
Perry, B.E. (1915–1970), 161, 406n.26
Perse, Saint-John (1887–1975), 90
Petronius (d. 66 C.E.), 79
Peveril of the Peak (Scott), 153, 202, 255
Phaedrus (ca. 15 B.C.E.–ca. 50 C.E.), 343
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (Carroll), 389n.29
Phantastes (MacDonald), xxiv, 285–90
Phèdre (Racine), 174
Phidias (5th century B.C.E.), 109
Philip Sparrow (Skelton), 73
Philip III (1578–1621), 391n.59
philosophy, 6, 24, 31, 32, 38, 51, 53, 66, 89, 90, 93, 112, 122, 123, 130, 131, 304, 334
“Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry, The” (Yeats), 112
“Photography Extraordinary” (Carroll), 390n.37
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), xvi, 52, 170
Pirandello, Luigi (1867–1936), 150
Pirate, The (Scott), xxiv, xxvi, xvii, 251–7
Plato (ca. 428–ca. 348 B.C.E.), 7, 62
Plautus (ca. 250–184 B.C.E.), 106, 206, 276, 406n.33
Player Queen, The (Yeats), 188
Plutarch (ca. 46–120 B.C.E.), 162
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809–1849), xix, 54, 95, 302, 395n.25
poetic thought, 24
poetry, language of, 34
Point Counter Point (Huxley), 391n.62
Polti, George (1867–1946), 407n.40
Pope, Alexander (1688–1744), 62
popular: approval, 55
belief, 253
character 372
comedies, 372
demand, 160
Egyptian representations, 175
feeling, 201
fiction, 126
jazz instruments, 22
Latin, 173
literary forms, 343
philosophers, 343
possession, 343
stories and songs, 322
symbol, 26
wisdom and energy, 343
writer, 332
Portent, The (MacDonald), xxiv, 296–300
Porter, Katherine Ann (1890–1980), xxx
Portrait of Jennie (Nathan), xxx, 387n.3
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 54
possession, 46, 95, 103, 188, 281, 340, 343
Pound, Ezra (1885–1972), 78, 82, 91, 92, 122
Pratt, E.J., (1882–1964) 113, 353, 415n.6
prayer, 234, 235, 242, 243, 356, 366
“Preface to Spiritus Mundi” (Frye), 347–52
“Preface to The Stubborn Structure” (Frye), 133–6
Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 302, 398n.35
Prelude in C-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff), xvi, 50, 54
Princess Ida (Gilbert and Sullivan), 25, 389n.29
“Problem of Spiritual Authority in the Nineteenth Century, The” (Frye), 404n.14
projection, 108, 151, 183, 184, 199, 218, 241, 252, 326, 345, 371
prose rhythm, 33
Prospice (Browning), 52
providence of God, 376
Provoked Wife, The (Vanbrugh), 389n.21
Psychology of the Unconscious (Jung), 368–70
Ptolemy, 62
Purgatorio (Dante), 293
Puritanism, 23
Purple Island, The (Fletcher), 93
Pygmalion theme, 286
Pythagoras (6th century B.C.E.), 62
“Quest and Cycle in Finnegans Wake” (Frye), xx
Rabelais, François (ca. 1494–1553), 37, 79, 80
Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873–1943), xvi, 50
Racine, Jean-Baptiste (1639–1699), 32, 174
Radcliffe, Ann (1763–1823), 183
radical: kind of changes in Eastern Bloc, xxiii
and image of root, 342
kind of social protest, 125
force the imagination consolidates with in the university, 100
Wyndham Lewis as, 81
railway, steam, 55–6
Raleigh, Sir Walter (ca. 1554–1618), 291
Ravel, Joseph-Maurice (1875–1937), 25
Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot, A (Williamson), 393n.8
Reading of George Herbert, A (Tuve), xviii, 75–6
reading program, 380
“Realistic Oriole: A Study of Wallace Stevens, The” (Frye), 402n.15
Reaney, James (1926–2008), 354
“Recognition in The Winter’s Tale” (Frye), 405n.15
recovery of myth, 326, 327, 328, 338
Redgauntlet (Scott), xxiv, 208–13
Reich, Wilhelm (1897–1957), 413n.10
“Relation of Religion to the Arts” (Frye), xiv
religion: Anglo-Catholic, xxi
art as expressed form of, 6
Aztec, 279
Coleridge’s ideas about, 301
conservatism in, 94
doctrinal elements of, 325
of Eros, 147
and false tradition, 244
fundamentalism in, 320
genuine, 290
Greek, 102
ideological approach to, 357
legalistic, 28
of love, 174
Marx’s concept of, 326
mysteries of, 15
myths of, 132
natural, 255
nominally Christian, 281
otherness in, 334
pagan, 278
patterns of, 124
poetic alliance with, 106
pre-Christian, 247
purifying of, 364
respect for, 118
sacred books of, 173
satire on, 59
“spilt,” 92
taught as an academic subject, 118
truth and reality in, 123
Religious Knowledge course, 118
“Renaissance of Books, The” (Frye), 348, 411n.3
“Rencontre” (Frye), xvii
Republic (Plato), 104
Requiem Mass, The (Skelton), 74
“Response to the Macpherson Report” (Frye), 114–19
Return, The (de la Mare), 387n.3
Return of Eden, The (Frye), 92, 135
Revelation, Book of, 40, 153, 322, 356, 364, 378
“Revelation to Eve, The” (Frye), 403n.8
Rhapsody on a Windy Night (Eliot), 90
Ricardo, David (1772–1823), 301
Richard I (1157–1199), 245
Richard II (Shakespeare), 41, 375, 390n.46
Richards, I.A. (1893–1979), 90
Richardson, John (1796–1852), xxvi, 208
Richardson, Samuel (1689–1761), 37, 104, 405n.15
Riche, Barnaby (ca. 1540–1617), 146
Rimbaud, Arthur (1854–1891), 288, 291, 409n.66 and n.68
Ring and the Book, The (Browning), 389n.30
Ripley, Sir George (ca. 1415–1490), 69
Rire, Le (Bergson), 82
“Rising of the Moon: A Study of A Vision, The” (Frye), 401n.50, 411n.12
“Road of Excess, The” (Frye), 395n.3, 403–4n.9
Robbe-Grillet, Alain (1922–2008), 319
Robin Hood, 246
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 37, 179
Robinson, Edward Arlington (1869–1935), 8
Rock, The (Eliot), 90
Rogers, Ted (1933–2008), 90
romance: seems to require an anti-realistic style, 208
good forms pull toward the centre of literary experience, 324
contrast with epic, 146
displaced identity in, 301
divine beings as feature of, 374
dream vs. wish-fulfillment in, 381
often ekphrastic, 208
faeries as apparatus of, 379
fear of incest as a structural principle of, 147
Frankenstein as, 126
its heroes motivated entirely by love, 146
seeks affinity to historical writing, 231
lovers must have equal social status, 151
Morris’s early treatment of, 380–1
has mystical snobbery about birth, 139
naïve vs. sentimental, xxiii
paradoxically is both reactionary and revolutionary, 178
has persistent night-world theme, 177
pessimistic nature of, 23
points toward the recreated world, 338
requires love as a real sickness, 157
Shakespearean forms contain the fundamental authority of art, 323
structure of, 324
telos is sexual conquest, 180
has two kinds of narrative movement (“and then” and “hence”), 162
Romance (Conrad), 337
“Romance as Masque” (Frye), 349, 411n.7
“Romance as Secular Scripture” (Frye), 315–46
romantic comedy, 154, 215, 338
Romanticism, xix, xxi, 94, 95, 99, 103, 113, 135, 301
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 161, 174, 373
Roots of the Mountains, The (Morris), xxiv, 278–81
Rosalind (Lodge), xxiv, 147–9, 150, 405n.10 and n.12
Ross, George (1875–1967), 412n.3
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–1778), 7, 9, 35, 38, 124, 331
Rubenstein, Arthur (1888–1982), 45
Rudens (Plautus), 406n.33
rugby, 56–7
Ruskin, John (1819–1900), 17, 388–9n.19
Russell, Bertrand (1872–1970), 7, 31, 89, 91
Russia, xxii–xxiii
learned journals in, 358
Ryan, Lawrence V., 393n.8
Ryga, George (1932–1987), 359
Sacrifice, The (Herbert), 76
Sailing to Byzantium (Yeats), 110, 400n.46
St. Ann’s Fugue, 353
St. Francis of Assisi (1182–1226), 331
St. John Damascene (676–749), 172
St. John’s United Church, 353
Samson Agonistes (Milton), 27, 185, 187, 350, 380
Sandburg, Carl (1878–1967), 30, 58
Sands of Dee, The (Kingsley), 407n.42
Sansom, G.H. (1883–1965), 414n.19
Sappho (ca. 630–570 B.C.E.), 173
Sartre, Jean Paul (1905–1980), 349
Satire, xxv, 5, 41, 59, 79–80, 84, 174
Saturnalia (Macrobius), 412n.1
Saul (Browning), 62
Schick, Joseph, 67
Schoolmaster, The (Ascham), 122
Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788–1860), 10, 290, 301
Schubert, Franz (1797–1828), 54
Schumann, Robert (1810–1856), 12, 22
Scott, F.R. (1899–1985), 388n.15
Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832), xxiv, xxvi, xxvii, xxxi, 21, 100, 192–257
Scottish theology, 31
“Search for Acceptable Words, The” (Frye), 347, 410n.2
Second Coming, The (Yeats), 351
Secord, Laura (1775–1868), 45
Secret of the Golden Flower, The (Jung), 371
Secular Scripture, The (Frye), xxiii, xxv, xxvii, 315–46
“Seeing, Hearing, Praying, Loving” (Frye), 355–7
Selected Letters (Frye), xxii
Self Condemned (Lewis), 84
self-respect, 8
Seneca (ca. 4 B.C.E.–65 C.E.), 163
Sense of the Past, A (James), xxx
Sensitive Plant, The (Shelley), 299
Seven Types of Ambiguity (Empson), 76
sexuality, 7
Shadowy Waters, The (Yeats), 107, 108, 110
Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), xiv–xv, xix, xx, 9, 12, 14–15, 17, 29, 30, 32, 37, 38, 40, 43, 44, 46–7, 53, 54, 134, 148, 151, 152, 154, 162, 187, 291, 304, 321, 371–3, 401n.49
All’s Well That Ends Well, 14
As You Like It, 38, 54, 147, 149, 216, 405n.12, 407n.41
Cymbeline, 100
Henry V, 375
King Lear, 14–15, 95, 110, 326, 374
Love’s Labour’s Lost, 147, 216
Measure for Measure, 14, 218, 317
The Merchant of Venice, 10–11, 41, 170
The Merry Wives of Windsor, 187
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 144, 159, 217, 269, 304, 317, 338
Much Ado about Nothing, 144, 168
Pericles, 144, 152, 162, 164, 310, 311, 326, 344, 372
Romeo and Juliet, 161, 174, 373
Sonnets, 112
The Taming of the Shrew, 162, 190
The Tempest, xxv, 54, 162, 164, 191
Timon of Athens, 17
Titus Andronicus, 374
Troilus and Cressida, 17
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 143, 144, 149
The Winter’s Tale, xxv, 40, 139, 151, 160, 191, 192, 195, 288, 374, 375
Shakespeare’s Mystery Play (Still), 390n.45
Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies (Lawrence), 390n.48
Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950), 7, 8, 33, 52
She (Haggard), 144
Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach), 104
Shelley, Mary (1797–1851), 125
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822), xiv–xv, 22, 46–7, 54, 76, 91, 135, 331, 395n.22
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 389n.31
Ship of Fools (Porter), xxx
Sick Rose, The (Blake), 101, 398n.39
Sidney, Sir Philip (1554–1586), xxiv, xxvi, 213–44
Signet Ring of Rakshasa, The, 190
Silberer, Herbert (1882–1922), 369, 370
Sinclair, May (1863–1946), 89, 392n.4
Sir Orfeo, 65
Sir Patrick Spens, 344
Sitwell, Osbert (1892–1969), 24
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello), 150
Six Novels of the Supernatural, xxxi, 387n.3
Skelton, John (ca. 1460–1529), 73–4
skeptic, the, 9
Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865–1946), 20
Snow, Sir Charles P. (1905–1980), 124–5
Social Contract (Rousseau), 38
Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr (1918–2008), 359
“Some Reflections on Life and Habit” (Frye), 415n.36
Sonata Pathétique, The (Opus 13) (Beethoven), 39, 390n.43
Song of Hiawatha, The (Longfellow), xxiv, 263–5
Song of Songs, 338
Sonnets (Shakespeare), 112
Southwell, Robert (1561–1595), 69
Soviet Union, xxii–xxiii, 358–62
“Soviet Union and Russia” (Frye), 358–62
Spain, 49
“Speculation and Concern” (Frye), 133, 403n.1
Spencer, Herbert (1820–1903), 35
Spengler, Oswald (1880–1936), 7, 8, 35, 41, 44, 49, 82, 328, 341, 349–50, 364, 388n.3, 390n.47, 391n.66
Spenser, Edmund (1552–1599), 53, 58–9, 61, 65, 93, 108, 112, 149, 219, 289
Spinoza, Baruch (1632–1677), 12, 28
Spiritus Mundi (Frye), xx, xxi, 47–51
Spoils of Poynton, The (James), 379
stained-glass windows, 21, 382–6
Stalin, Joseph (1879–1953), 92, 359, 360
Staple of News, The (Jonson), 207
Statues, The (Yeats), 187
Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946), 78, 81
Steiner, George (b. 1929), xxi, 348
Sterne, Laurence (1713–1768), 37, 38, 301
Stevens, Wallace (1879–1955), xxi, 112, 113, 334, 347, 351, 410n.4
Stewart, Stanley (b. 1931), 176, 406n.31
Still, Colin (b. 1888), 40, 390n.45
Stinson, John (b. 1910), 3, 56, 391n.68
Story of the Glittering Plain, The (Morris), xxiv, 275–7
Strabo (ca. 64–ca. 24 B.C.E.), 173
Stratton-Porter, Gene (1863–1924), 406n.19
Strindberg, August (1849–1912), 12, 152
Strothmann, Friedrich W. (1904–1982), 393n.8
structure, 103, 128, 147, 150, 182, 183, 202, 294, 302, 318, 319
archetypes of, 184
architectural metaphor of, 342
binary, 186
of the clinch-tease, 147
cultural, 9
decentralized, 256
economic, 357
general, 326
heuristic, 326
ideal, 154
implicit, 95
intellectual, 359
of knowledge, 365
logical, 41
main, 98
of Menippean wash, 147
of metaphor, 103
organizing ideas of, 285
prodigal son, 148
single, 355
social, 320
of society, 110
total, 186
of towns, 127
university, 111
of wanderings, 144
“Structure of Imagery in the Faerie Queene, The” (Frye), 402n.5
Stubborn Structure, The (Frye), xx, xxi, 133–6
Study of English Romanticism, A (Frye), xvii, 135
Suckling, Sir John (1609–1642), 24
Sullivan, Arthur (1842–1900), 18, 28, 29
Sundering Flood, The (Morris), xxiv, 281–5
Sunshine Susie (film), 28
superstition, 50
Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of (1517–1547), 17
Surtees, Robert (1805–1864), 189, 217, 407n.46
“Survival of Eros in Poetry, The” (Frye), xxvii
Suspiria de Profundis (De Quincey), 308, 409n.75 and n.81
Sweeney Agonistes (Eliot), 90, 394n.13 and n.14
Sweeney among the Nightingales (Eliot), 92
Sweeney Erect (Eliot), 394n.12
Sweet Rocket (Johnston), xxx–xxxi, 363
Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745), 26–7, 302
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909), 54
“Symbol as a Medium of Exchange, The” (Frye), 415n.35
symbolism: alchemical 254–5
of Blake’s prophecies, 135
double-gyre, 292
earth-mother, 192
emanation, 299
faulty, 313
as field of interpenetration, 38
“if-it-die,” 295
interpretation of, 52
lunar, 90
Old Testament, 75
Pasternak’s, 88
phallic, 12
of recurrent life, 381
sexual, 26
Symbols of Transformation (Jung), 379
Symons, Arthur (1865–1945), 89
Tale of Adrian and Bardus, The (Gower), 64
Tale of Genji, 224
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare), 162, 190
Tam o’ Shanter (Burns), 38
Tansey, Charlotte, 315, 318, 319, 322, 326, 329, 335–6, 338, 340–1, 343, 345
Tarr (Lewis), 84
Taussig, Walter (1908–2003), 54
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), xxv, 54, 162, 164, 191
Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809–1892), 8, 22, 54
Terror, The (Machen), 387n.3
Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Hardy), 37
Testament (Lydgate), 68
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–1863), 21, 37
theme: anxiety of continuity, 147
beauty and the beast, 267
bed trick, 190
communication, 207
cuckolding, 17
death-to-rebirth, 190
defense of the virgin, 314
demonic parody, 168
descent from the gods, 280
descent to the underworld, 176, 327, 330, 343
drama-acted-by-spirits, 191
drug, 178
ekpyrosis, 182
farmers and fences, 130
Fascist, 91
grateful dead, 185
Hamlet, 90
hero from over the sea, 231
Herod, 224
invulnerable chastity, 143
isolation, 91
jealousy, 110
Jonah descent, 175
magic mirror, 287
magical portrait, 190
metamorphosis, 188, 216, 217, 262
mirror, 288
mock death of heroine, 144
money from sea, 146
music master, 190
night world, 177
obsession, 212
Odyssey, 188
opium, 177
oracle design, 232
pirate, 254
renunciation-of-magic, 268
reproach, 140
return of the thrall, 263
revolutionary, 184
self-imprisonment, 289
Serena sacrifice, 145
shadow-substance, 149
shipwreck and treasure from the sea, 214
shipwrecked heroine of romance, 307
snow maiden, 287
sun and moon, 155
supremacy of friendship over love, 144
time, 181
trace of disguise, 170
transformation of ship into vines, 140
treasure from the sea, 163, 252, 309
unfreezing of the statue, 151
Utopias, 135
Wagner Ring, 177
wandering in forest, 148
withdrawal, 180
Themis (Harrison), 14, 388n.14
Theocritus (fl. 270 B.C.E.), 146
Theodoric the Great (454–526 C.E.), 62
thinking, 20
Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (Polti), 406n.40
Thistle and the Rose, The (Dunbar), 71
Thomas, Dylan (1914–1953), 106, 400n.46
Thompson, James (1700–1748), 62
Thompson, Stith (1885–1976), 154
Three Cuckolds, The (anon.), 407n.37
Three Greek Romances (Hadas), xxiv, 142–5, 404–5n.7
Three Voices, The (Carroll), 25
Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll), 109, 406n.34
Thucydides (ca. 469–ca. 400 B.C.E.), 51
Tibetan Book of the Dead, The, 306
Tilley, Sir Samuel Leonard (1818–1896), 43, 82, 390n.51
Time and Western Man (Lewis), xix, 82
“Times of the Signs, The” (Frye), 348, 411n.4
Timon of Athens (Shakespeare), 17
’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore (Ford), 161, 406n.25
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (1488–1576), 41, 390n.50
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 374
To the Terrestrial Globe (Gilbert), 42
“To Come to Light” (Frye), xxix
To Have and to Hold (Johnston), 387n.4
Tolkien, J.R.R. (1892–1973), xviii, 272, 341
Tolstoy, Count Leo (1828–1910), 100, 101
Tom Jones (Fielding), 37
“Top of the Tower: A Study of the Imagery of Yeats, The” (Frye), 404n.15
“Towards Defining an Age of Sensibility” (Frye), 112, 398n.26, 402n.7
Towards the Last Spike (Pratt), 113
Tower, The (Yeats), 110
Toy Cart, The, 190
Traces on the Rhodian Shore (Glacken), 414n.27
tragedy: of Abelard and Heloise, 37
blood ties in, 263
Book of Job as, 174
conflict in Hamlet, 16
contrast with comedy, 349
enclosed in comedy, 152
of Hardy’s Tess, 37
in IV Macabbees, 173
in Old Testament, 174
and pathos, 15
precedents for in Shakespeare, 374
in Scott’s Waverley, 194
Senecan, 374
and torture, 14
of unlicensed sex, 162
of virginity in Ophelia, 16
tragic: action, 350
archetypal formulae, 67
the background theme in Scott’s Waverley, 193
category in Yeats’s A Vision, 107
lurking possibility of metamorphosis, 189
as opposed to pathetic, 15
when sexual partners are socially unequal, 151
result of patriarchal society, 174
situation of artist at centre of civilization, 113
truncated comic story, 160
one of Yeats’s historical cycles, 328
Trahison des Clercs (Benda), 331
Trembling of the Vale (Yeats), 401n.5
Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo, The (Dunbar), 70
Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 13, 37, 53, 96
Triumph of Life, The (Shelley), 331
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), 17
Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer), 73
Troy Book (Lydgate), 66
Truant, The (Pratt), 415n.6
True History (Lucian), 175
Tschaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840–1893), 22
T.S. Eliot (Drew), 390n.8
T.S. Eliot (Unger), 393n.8
Turn of the Screw, The (James), 25
Tuscan Disputations (Cicero), 133, 173
Tuve, Rosemond (1903–1964), xviii, 75–6
Twain, Mark (1835–1910), xv, 41, 390n.49
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 149, 156, 375
Twine, Laurence (16th century), 406n.27
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare), 143, 144, 149
Two Noble Kinsmen [TNK] (Fletcher and Shakespeare), 372, 413n.5
Ulysses (Joyce), xvi, 53–4, 90, 318
Under Ben Bulben (Yeats), 110
undergraduate education, 114–19
Unger, Leonard (1916–2006), 90, 393n.8
United Church of Canada, 6, 118–19
“University and Personal Life, The” (Frye), 348, 410–11n.2
Unspeakable Scot, The (Crosland), 31
Usk, Thomas (ca. 1354–1388), 65
Utopias, 28, 103, 104, 105, 124, 135, 159, 176, 196, 379
Valéry, Paul (1871–1945), 90, 344
value judgments, 317
Vanbrugh, John, 389n.21
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853–1890), 12
“Varieties of Literary Utopias” (Frye), 403n.7
Varieties of Religious Experience (James), 319
Varro (116–27 B.C.E.), 173–4
Vaughan, Henry (1622–1695), 73, 76
Velázquez, Diego (1599–1660), 318
Venus of Urbino (Titian), 41
Venus of Willendorf, 94
vers libre, 34
Vico, Giambattista (1688–1744), 328, 379
Victoria, Queen (1819–1901), 25
“Victoria Chapel Windows, The” (Frye), 382–5
Victoria College, xiii, xxviii, 114, 116–19
“Victoria College’s Contribution to the Development of Canadian Culture” (Frye), xxviii, 352–4
Virgil (70–19 B.C.E.), 121, 173
Visible Language, 348
vision, 67, 86, 94, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104, 113, 124, 127, 132, 154, 286, 306, 345–6, 350–1, 356, 371
Vision, A (Yeats), 107, 110, 187, 350
“Vision and Cosmos” (Frye), xxvii
Vita Nuova, La (Dante), 366
Voegelin, Eric (1901–1985), 325, 346
Voltaire (François-Marie d’Arouet) (1694–1778), 9, 10
von Kluck, Alexander Heinrich Rudolph (1846–1934), 52
Voyage Out, The (Woolf), 291
Wacousta (Richardson), xxvi, 208
“Wallace Stevens and the Variation Form” (Frye), 411n.13
Wagenknecht, Edward, 387n.3
Wagner, Richard (1813–1883), 390n.50
Wanderer, The, 63–4
“Wandering Willie’s Tale” (Scott), 209
war on poverty, 126–7
Warkentin, Germaine, xxviii
Warren, Florence, 392n.7
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 90, 91, 92, 164, 318, 344, 400n.46
Water of the Wondrous Isles, The (Morris), 283
Waves, The (Woolf), 48
Way of the World, The (Congreve), 37
Webster, John (ca. 1580–ca. 1626), 17
Well at the World’s End, The (Morris), xxiv, 270–5
Well-Tempered Critic, The (Frye), xxvi, 395n.24
Wells, H.G. (1866–1946), 93
Wesley, Charles (1707–1788), 416n.11
Wesley, John (1703–91), xxviii, 416n.11
Wesley, Samuel (1766–1837), 384, 415n.5
Wheelwright, Philip (1901–1970), 90, 134, 393n.8, 403n.3
Whistler, James Abbott McNeil (1834–1903), 17, 388–9n.19
White Devil, The (Webster), 17
White Goddess, The (Graves), 270
White Guard (Bulgakov), 359–60
Whitman, Walt (1819–1892), 19, 43, 108
Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? (Suckling), 24
Widsith, 62
Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900), 15, 17, 48
William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols (Damon), 410n.2
Williams, Charles (1886–1945), xxx, 363
Williamson, George (1898–1968), 90, 393n.9
Wilson, Edmund (1895–1972), 90
Wilson, Milton (1923–2013), 90
Wimsatt, William K., Jr. (1907–1975), 351
Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare), xxv, 40, 139, 151, 160, 191, 192, 195, 288, 374, 375, 405n.15
wisdom, 5, 28, 84, 127, 173, 263, 343, 366, 377, 378
“Wisdom and Knowledge” (Frye), xxix
Wisdom of Solomon, Book of, 173, 382
Wise Woman, The (MacDonald), 142
Woman in White, The (Collins), xxiv, xxv, 182–6
Woman Killed with Kindness, A (Heywood), 17
Wood beyond the World, The (Morris), xxiv, 266–70
Woodhouse, A.S.P. (1895–1964), 135, 330
Woodman, Ross, 387n.1
Woolf, Virginia (1882–1941), 48, 291
Words with Power (Frye), xxv, xxxii
Wordsworth, William (1770–1850), 69, 315–16
Works (Fuller), 37
“World as Music and Idea in Wagner’s Parsifal, The” (Frye), 415n.33
wu wei, 371
Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503–1542), 69
Wycherley, William (1641–1715), 17
Wyclif, John (ca. 1329–1384), 31
“Wyndham Lewis: Anti-Spenglerian” (Frye), xix
Wyndham Lewis (Wagner), xviii–xix, 78–84
Xenophon of Ephesus (fl. 2nd–3rd centuries), xxiii, 142–5, 163
Yeats, William Butler (1865–1939), xxi, 107–10, 112, 113, 135, 187, 188, 224, 327–8, 332, 347, 350–1, 400n.46
“Yeats and the Language of Symbolism” (Frye), 402n.13
Yorkshire Tragedy, A (Middleton), 372, 413n.6
Zanoni (Bulwer-Lytton), 210, 273
Zarathustra, 110
Zeno the Stoic (333–264 B.C.E.), 173
Zola, Émile (1840–1902), 323