Thursday, March 18, 2021

 

Deprivation

Northrop Frye (1912-1991), "The Developing Imagination," Reading the World: Selected Writings, 1935-1976, ed. Robert D. Denham (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp. 80-98 (at 89):
To grow up in ignorance of what is in the Bible or Homer is as crippling to the imagination as being deprived of the multiplication table.



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