Paul H. Fry is a William Lampson Professor of English and Master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale University. His numerous scholarly articles and books on Romantic poetry and literary theory include The Poet's Calling in the English Ode (1980); The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory (1983); William Empson: Prophet against Sacrifice (1991); and A Defense of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing (1995). He is currently at work on a study of William Wordsworth.