Paul Fry (professor)

Paul H. Fry
Born	United States
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Harvard University
Genre	English Literature

Paul Fry is the William Lampson Professor of English at Yale University, a specialist in British Romantic poetry.

He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

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(2):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
• (edited), "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 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 4–8

At Yale, he was master of Ezra Stiles College from 1995 to 2002.

External links

• Paul Fry's Profile at Yale University
• In 2009, Professor Fry delivered a semester-long course on the Theory of Literature, which can be viewed here and here.