“I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.”

— Northrop Frye

"Statement for the Day of My Death"
"Quotes"
Context: The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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