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LAW & HISTORY > literary critic, educator > Northrop Frye
A reader who...
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature.
Source: Anatomy of Criticism, Essay 2, Literal and Descriptive Phases, 1957.
-- Northrop Frye, (Jul 14 1912-1991), Canadian literary critic, educator; He is noted for tracking myths and symbols to biblical sources; author of influential theories of criticism, Anatomy of Criticism, 1957.