Paul Fry (professor)

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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.

Among his major publications are:

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