Paul H. Fry is William Lampson Professor of English, Yale University. The author or editor of five previous books, he lives in New Haven, CT.
"Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are deepens and renews a
tradition of literary-critical reflection on Wordsworth's
poetry. It is a book that everywhere shows evidence of the
author's learning, subtlety, and critical acumen."—Simon Jarvis,
University of
Cambridge
*Simon Jarvis*
"Paul Fry's book should not only enrich the scholarly understanding
of Wordsworth but also the larger cultural and literary
conversation as to what poetry is and does."—Jonathan Arac,
University of Pittsburgh
*Jonathan Arac*
"In Fry's informed philosophical scrutiny of Wordsworth's poetry,
the convergence of humanity and Nature prompts a sustained
reflection about the role a non-human world plays in Wordsworth's,
or any other, humanism. Fry clarifies and advances an ongoing
revolution in the unsentimental appreciation of Wordsworth's
greatness. He has made a decisive contribution not only to
Wordsworth studies but also to our understanding of poetical
thinking."—Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University
*Geoffrey Hartman*
"A genuinely original and provocative study of the poet who is, as
Fry handsomely persuades us, the most original and provocative
lyricist in the English literary tradition. A critic of
sensitivity, conviction, and wit, Paul Fry is superbly
readable. No one who admires Wordsworth's poetry could fail
to enjoy this thoughtful and engaging book."—Seamus Perry, Balliol
College, University of Oxford
*Seamus Perry*
"Neither apocalyptic, political, nor ecological, Paul Fry's
Wordsworth is not gleaming red or green, but stony gray. Fry
is the first to convey, eloquently, the force of the poet's
silences. After two centuries, Wordsworth's deepest, most
disquieting harmonies are heard at last."—Marshall Brown,
University of Washington
*Marshall Brown*
"With searching wisdom and genial wit, Paul Fry unveils for us a
new 'ontic' Wordsworth, a poet of human and non-human being, whose
poems explore and explain the purpose of poetry."—Michael O’Neill,
Durham University
*Michael O’Neill*
"This the sort of book proceeds along a path that is far
from straight or obvious but reaches a satisfying destination not
in spite, but because of its wandering by the way. . . . It
is the work of someone who has been thinking, long and hard, about
his subject for many years. . . .Wordsworth studies, and our sense
of Wordsworth himself, will never be quite the same."—Willard
Spiegelman, Studies in Romanticism
*Studies in Romanticism*
"A valuable addition to Wordsworth studies. . . . It stands out
because it implicitly questions the value of the field to which it
belongs."—Jessica Fay, Bulletin & Review
*Bulletin & Review*
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