Ocupation: Literary critic
Life: July 14, 1912 - January 23, 1991
Birthday: July 14
Death: January 23
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
source: Northrop Frye (1996). “Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963”
topic: Writing, May, Attributes, Didactic