The Cosmic Shape: An interpretation of myth and legend, with three poems and lyrics

by Ross Nichols, James Kirkup

Northrop Frye comments on this work thus: "The authors believe that Jung's theory of 'archetypes' has provided a formula for gathering together the myths of all countries into a single gigantic mythical form, in which the death-and-resurrection pattern founded on the return of spring looms most prominently. This thesis has got far beyond the stage of intuitive guesswork which they appear still to be in, but their comments are often illuminating and some of the illustrative poems, notably 'The Sleeper in the Earth,' have much eloquent and haunting power" (Canadian Forum, 27 (September 1947): 143, quoted in Frye: The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963, 58).

111 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1946